Veterans’ Burial Improvement Act of 2025

This bill removes expiration dates for burial benefits for spouses and children who predeceased active-duty service members, making these benefits permanent. It updates transportation allowances for veterans' burials to automatically adjust annually based on inflation (using the Consumer Price Index), and allows the VA to cover actual transportation costs exceeding the allowance for veterans dying outside their home state. The bill also introduces optional group headstones/markers for multiple veterans buried together, replacing individual markers for new burials at shared locations, while preserving existing individual markers. Finally, it expands burial eligibility to include veterans with shorter service terms (meeting minimum requirements) and their families, and allows spouses/children of deceased veterans to be buried in VA cemeteries.