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Veterans Affairs: Additional Actions Needed to Increase Veterans' Burial Access

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 30, 2019
Release Date Sept. 30, 2019
Report No. GAO-19-121
Summary:

The Department of Veterans Affairs is responsible for ensuring that veterans have reasonable access to burial options in a national or state veterans’ cemetery. It defines reasonable access as a cemetery within 75 miles of veterans’ homes. It estimated that about 92% of veterans had reasonable access in fiscal year 2018.

VA’s National Cemetery Administration has a plan to establish 18 new national cemeteries to increase access. However, it is years behind schedule for opening new cemeteries and its cost estimates for some sites have more than doubled.

We recommended the National Cemetery Administration adopt better cost-estimating practices.

A flag and flowers in a cemetery

A flag and flowers in a cemetery

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