The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to start issuing urns and commemorative plaques to the families of deceased veterans this year, but the move has drawn criticism that it could block those ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs acknowledged criticism of its plan to distribute memorial urns and plaques in a final rule published Friday -- namely, that accepting an urn might bar later burials ...

A new Department of Veterans Affairs plan has sparked concerns that some veterans could be barred from being buried with their spouses. The proposed rule change recently published by the VA would ...

As the nation is commemorating another Memorial Day, some are commiserating over a federal law passed in 2020 dealing with the issuance of commemorative plaques and urns to veterans. The Johnny ...

Families who choose to receive an urn or commemorative plaque on behalf of a deceased veteran forfeit the right to bury that veteran in a national cemetery under a new Department of Veterans Affairs ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs completed its first year of a policy allowing eligible veterans and certain former service members in acute suicidal crisis to go to any VA or non-VA health care ...