Bipartisan legislation expanding VA burial benefits for veterans, inspired by late Michigan veteran

WASHINGTON, DC

United States Senator Gary Peters (MI) announced that he reintroduced bipartisan legislation that would expand Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) burial benefits eligibility to terminally ill veterans who pass away at a non-VA facility while receiving hospice care. The legislation, called Gerald’s Law Act, was named after late Michigan veteran Gerald “Jerry” Elliott of Kingsford who…