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No Operating State Veterans Cemetery Yet — One Is Being Built at Salcha

The state veterans office describes federal burial benefits only, and the cemeteries it points to are national ones. The Interior of Alaska Veterans Cemetery is a State of Alaska cemetery, and its own page says it is scheduled for construction at Salcha.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

The state veterans office describes federal burial benefits only, and the cemeteries it points to are national ones. The Interior of Alaska Veterans Cemetery is a State of Alaska cemetery, and its own page says it is scheduled for construction at Salcha.

What it's worth: No state cemetery open yet; the federal system is the route today

  • The state veterans office burial page sets out federal entitlements — the national cemetery system, the furnished headstone or marker, the casket flag — and names no state burial allowance, headstone-setting reimbursement or funeral honours stipend of its own.
  • The burial and survivor landing page points to Fort Richardson National Cemetery on JBER and Sitka National Cemetery. Both are federal facilities of the National Cemetery Administration.
  • The Interior of Alaska Veterans Cemetery page describes it as a State of Alaska veterans cemetery currently scheduled for construction at Salcha, administered through the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. Eligibility rules, fees and an opening date are not stated on that page.
  • A spouse or eligible dependant is not entitled to a furnished headstone or marker unless buried in a national cemetery, a state veterans cemetery or a military post or base cemetery.

Who is entitled to it

  • This record answers the burial question for someone who served.
  • Your home is in this state.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Plan around the federal national cemetery system for now, and pre-qualify there rather than waiting for a state option that is not yet open.
  2. 2Ask the Office of Veterans Affairs on 907-334-0874 or 1-888-248-3682 for the current status of the Salcha cemetery before assuming it will be available when needed.
  3. 3If burial will be in a private cemetery, remember the furnished headstone or marker does not extend to a spouse or dependant there — that is a national, state or military cemetery entitlement only.
  4. 4Do not budget against a state burial allowance. None appears on the agency’s own burial pages.
File with
Office of Veterans Affairs, Anchorage
Documents you will need
dd214
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionBenefit round-ups that list a "state veterans cemetery" here are ahead of the facts. The cemetery is a real project with a real location, and it is not open. The distinction matters most to the people least able to absorb a surprise.
Worth knowingThis is an absence recorded from agency pages, not from the statutes. The state statute hosts refuse automated reading, so whether a burial allowance sits unadvertised somewhere in the code was not established and is carried as a research candidate.

Sources

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