New York Laws
Article 1 - Department of Veterans' Services
9 - New York State Veteran Burial Fund.

(a) Eligible recipients under this program shall be those who bore the
cost of the funeral as the agent in control of the disposition of
remains. An application shall be made available to an eligible
recipient. Any applicant convicted of making any false statement in the
application for the reimbursement shall be subject to the penalties
prescribed in the penal law.
(b) Such optional burial allowance is a reimbursement of an eligible
decedent's burial and interment costs not to exceed two thousand five
hundred dollars in a New York state not-for-profit cemetery. The
reimbursement is generally available as a plot interment allowance. Any
allowance granted by the government of the United States, pursuant to 38
U.S.C. §§ 2302, 2303, 2306, 2307 and 2308 or 10 U.S.C. § 1482 shall be
first applied toward interment costs. An additional allowance of up to
the cost of the actual burial and interment as provided under
subdivision nineteen of section four of this article may be awarded to
cover any remaining expenses.
(c) Evidence of the military service of the decedent for each case
shall be furnished in the manner and form prescribed by the state
commissioner; upon being satisfied that the facts in the application are
true, the state commissioner shall certify to the state comptroller the
name and address of such agent in control of the disposition of remains
for reimbursement as provided in this section.