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Military Funeral Honours Stipend — Paid to the Honour Guard, Not the Family

The veterans department reimburses veterans service organisation honour guard teams that augment active duty branch teams in delivering military funeral honours. The rate is set in a Memorandum of Agreement and is not published on the department’s page.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

The veterans department reimburses veterans service organisation honour guard teams that augment active duty branch teams in delivering military funeral honours. The rate is set in a Memorandum of Agreement and is not published on the department’s page.

What it's worth: Reimbursement to the honour guard organisation; the rate is in the Memorandum of Agreement

  • The department describes the stipend as enabling it to reimburse veterans service organisation honour guard teams that augment active duty military branch honour guard teams, as an authorised provider under the Department of Defense military funeral honours Authorized Provider Partnership Program.
  • The procedures are laid out in a Memorandum of Agreement, and the department tells organisations it is essential to read the detailed instructions in that agreement before applying.
  • The application is the Military Funeral Honors Stipend Request Form, emailed to the department’s public mailbox.
  • The page carries an Eligibility heading with no criteria under it, and no dollar amount, no deadline and no Arkansas Code citation appear anywhere on it.
  • It is weighted at zero here because it is an unquantified reimbursement to an organisation, not a payment to a veteran or a family.

Who is entitled to it

  • Funeral honours run to a veteran whose service was other than dishonourable.
  • Your home is in this state.

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How to claim it

Deadline: Set in the Memorandum of Agreement
  1. 1Families: ask the funeral director which organisation is providing the honour guard, and whether they are registered under the department’s stipend programme. That is what makes a local team able to turn out.
  2. 2Organisations: ask the department for the Memorandum of Agreement first. The page says the procedures and the detailed instructions are in it, and the rate is not published anywhere else.
  3. 3Complete the Military Funeral Honors Stipend Request Form and email it to the department’s public mailbox.
  4. 4Ask for the submission deadline in writing at the same time. None is stated on the page, and honours stipends elsewhere commonly run on a short clock.
Form
Military Funeral Honors Stipend Request Form
File with
Department of Veterans Affairs
Documents you will need
dd214
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionThis is not a burial allowance and must not be read as one. No money reaches the family from it. Its practical value to a family is that a volunteer honour guard can afford the detail.
Worth knowingFederal law already entitles an eligible veteran to military funeral honours at the family’s request, performed by uniformed members of the armed forces. The state stipend exists because active duty teams are routinely augmented by volunteers under the federal partnership programme.

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