Pre-Need Veteran Planning

Lock in your military funeral on your own terms.

Pre-need planning protects the family from price increases, eliminates 72-hour decisions during grief, and ensures the honors detail, cemetery, and casket choice are documented in writing.

Why pre-plan?

·Price protection. Funeral home services and casket prices increase 3–5% annually. Pre-need contracts lock today's price for tomorrow's service.
·72-hour grace. Surviving spouses face 30+ decisions in the first three days. Pre-planning eliminates the worst of them.
·Honors coordination. Pre-arranging through a veteran-friendly funeral home ensures the DD-214 is on file and the honors detail is contacted before death.
·Cemetery selection. Choose your VA national, state, or private cemetery on your own schedule, not under duress.
·Family alignment. Document your wishes for the spouse, children, and executor. Reduces conflict at the moment of greatest stress.

VA national cemetery pre-need

Veterans can submit a pre-need eligibility determination directly to the National Cemetery Administration using VA Form 40-10007. Once approved, the determination is on file and the family does not need to re-verify eligibility at the time of death.

Read VA pre-need guidance

After the Funeral · Veteran Family

Estate settlement for the veteran's surviving spouse.

A surviving spouse must file VA Form 21P-534EZ for DIC, claim SGLI/VGLI, retitle joint property, and close federal accounts. EverSettled walks veteran families step by step — free.

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