---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 3.1710"
title: "38"
number: "3.1710"
heading: "Escheat (payment of burial benefits to an estate with no heirs)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/3.1710"
---

# §3.1710. Escheat (payment of burial benefits to an estate with no heirs).


VA will not pay burial benefits if the payment would escheat (that is, would be turned over to the State because there are no heirs to the estate of the person to whom such benefits would be paid).


## Notes

### Source

Source: 79 FR 32658, June 6, 2014, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 105 Stat. 386, 38 U.S.C. 501(a), 2303-2308, unless otherwise noted.