[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR61.205]

[Page 125]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF WORKERS'COMPENSATION PROGRAMS,DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 61--CLAIMS FOR COMPENSATION UNDER THE WAR HAZARDS COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart C--Compensation for Injury, Disability or Death
 
Sec. 61.205  Burial expense.

    (a) When the death of a person listed in Sec. 61.1(a) results from 
an injury caused by a war-risk hazard, the Office shall pay reasonable 
burial expenses up to the amount specified in section 9 of the Longshore 
and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act. If any part of the burial expense 
has been paid by any other agency of the United States, or by any person 
under obligation to discharge burial expenses, the amount so paid shall 
be deducted from the burial expense payable by the Office. Payment will 
be made directly (1) to the undertaker, (2) to the estate of the 
deceased if the estate is obligated to make payment, or (3) to any 
person who has paid such burial expenses and is entitled to such 
reimbursement.
    (b) If the employee's home is within the United States and death 
occurs away from the employee's home or outside the United States, the 
Office may pay an additional sum for transporting the remains to the 
home.