Crime Victim Compensation
Department Of Justice, Office Of Justice Programs
Program goal(s) name: Support crime victims through reimbursement, support, and services. Program goal(s) description: Supplement state and territory efforts to provide financial compensation to crime victims throughout the nation for costs resulting from crime. These funds are used to provide crime victims with the compensation, support, and services necessary to aid their restoration after criminal violence, including costs associated with medical fees, lost income, dependent care, funeral exp
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Helps crime victims get money for medical bills, counseling, funeral costs, and lost wages. It supplements state programs that assist these victims.
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What Is This Program?
What Benefits Are Offered?
Provides direct financial compensation to individuals impacted by crime, offers comprehensive resources and assistance (including hotlines, information, training, technical assistance, and publications) to victims and service providers, and awards grants to organizations enhancing victim support, particularly in tribal communities and for human trafficking survivors. The program also provides access to national crime information systems for Tribal law enforcement.
Who Is Eligible?
Industries: nonprofit, victim services, law enforcement, community organizations
Region: United States, U.S. states and territories, American Indian and Alaska Native communities
Demographics: crime victims, American Indian and Alaska Native individuals, child victims, victims of mass violence, survivors of human trafficking, victims of elder financial fraud
Other Criteria: individuals impacted by crime, victim service providers, law enforcement agencies, first responders, community and faith leaders, organizations addressing anti-labor trafficking efforts, grantees developing victim services programs, individuals experiencing discrimination from Justice Department funded agencies
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📋What Are the Application Steps & Timeline?
- 📝Steps to Apply
- Visit the Victim Compensation and Assistance page
- Find contact information for victim assistance programs
- Apply for victim compensation
- 🌐Application Portal
- http://www.ovc.gov/help-for-victims/overview
- 📤Submission Method
- online
- 🔄Intake Type
- rolling
📄What Documents Are Required?
- ✅Required Documents
- SF-424 (Application for Federal Assistance)
- SF-424A (Budget Information - Non-Construction)
- SF-424B (Assurances)
- Project Narrative
- Budget Narrative
- 📐Format Requirements
- PDF only, max 10MB
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💰What Expenses Are Eligible?
- 🧾Eligible Expenses
- medical and mental health care
- funeral and burial
- repatriation of the victim’s remains
- property loss
- miscellaneous expenses
- 💳Payment Model
- reimbursement
🤝Is Matching Funding Required?
📊What Are the Reporting Requirements?
- 🗓️Reporting Frequency
- annual
- 📑Reporting Requirements
- performance progress report
- 🔍Audit Requirements
- OMB Uniform Guidance Single Audit if the recipient expends $750,000 or more in federal awards
- 📢Branding Requirements
- Acknowledgment of federal funding is required
- 🗄️Record Retention Period
- 3 years post-final-report
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This program offers funding up to $3 (minimum $3).
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