Regulations last checked for updates: Apr 02, 2025

Title 38 - Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief last revised: Mar 17, 2025
§ 3.1710 - Escheat (payment of burial benefits to an estate with no heirs).

VA will not pay burial benefits if the payment would escheat (that is, would be turned over to the State because there are no heirs to the estate of the person to whom such benefits would be paid).

(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501(a))
cite as: 38 CFR 3.1710