Victims Support Scheme Quick Guide

To help in your recovery.

Up to 22 hours of counselling and more for some victims.

• Primary victims.
• Secondary victims.
• Parents, step-parents and guardians of a primary victim who was under 18 when the incident happened.

To help cover urgent health, safety or wellbeing expenses resulting from the violent crime or modern slavery.

Up to $5,000 to help pay for expenses including:

• security measures such as changing the locks on your doors or putting an alarm in your home
• relocation
• crime scene clean-up
• emergency doctor, dentist and other medical bills.

• Primary victims.

To help cover other expenses resulting from the violent crime or modern slavery.

Up to $30,000 to help pay for:

• actual loss of earnings due to time off work (up to $20,000)
• out-of-pocket expenses if you did not lose earnings (up to $5,000)
• doctor, dentist or other medical bills (up to $30,000)
• loss or damage to the clothes you wore or items you were carrying when the violent crime or modern slavery happened (up to $1,500)
• costs incurred in attending court or coronial proceedings, or other justice-related expenses (up to $5,000).

• Primary victims.
• Parents, stepparents and guardians of a primary victim who was under 18 when the incident happened.

• Within 2 years from the violent crime or modern slavery, or within 2 years of turning 18 if the victim was a child at the time of the incident.
• For victims of sexual assault who were children when the incident happened, there is no time limit for claiming out-of-pocket and justice-related expenses.

To acknowledge that a violent crime or act of modern slavery has been committed against you.

The amount of a recognition payment is based on the offence:

• $10,000 for primary victims of sexual assault involving serious bodily injury, multiple offenders, or an offensive weapon or a sexual assault, sexual act, or attempted sexual assault involving a series of incidents.
• $5,000 for primary victims of a sexual assault, attempted sexual assault causing serious bodily injury, assault resulting in grievous bodily harm, or physical assault of a child that involves a series of incidents.
• $1,500 for primary victims of an attempted sexual assault without serious bodily injury, sexual touching, sexual acts (if the victim was under 16 years old at the time), a robbery involving violence, or an assault which didn’t cause grievous bodily harm.

• Primary victims.

• Within 2 years of the violent crime or modern slavery or within 2 years of turning 18 if the victim was a child at the time of the incident.
• Within 10 years of the incident for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or child abuse, or within 10 years of turning 18 if the victim was a child at the time of the incident (with the below exception for child sexual assault).
• For a victim of sexual assault who was a child under 18 years of age at the time of the incident, there is no time limit to apply.