WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 -- Sen. John Boozman issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators John Boozman (R-AR), a senior member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, and Gary Peters (D-MI), a former Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have introduced the Gerald's Law Reauthorization Act of 2026 to ensure terminally ill veterans are not prevented from receiving a monetary burial allowance if they pass away at a facility not affiliated with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Previously, VA was only able to offer funds for burial and funeral expenses for veterans hospitalized at the VA at the time of death through the "Non-Service-Connected Burial and Plot Benefit." Ger...