The Office of the Attorney General provides assistance via the Crime Victim Compensation Program, providing financial assistance and referral services to eligible victims of crime.
Benefits Include
- Wage Loss
- Loss of support
- Disability
- Funeral/Burial
- Treatment expenses
- Mental Health Counseling
- Domestic Violence Relocation
- Prescriptions, eyeglasses, dentures or prosthetic devices
Who Qualifies
- Victims who suffered personal, physical, psychiatric or psychological inury as the result of a crime.
- Survivors of a victim who was killed as a result of a felony or misdemeanor crime punishable under federal or state law including DUI and hit and run.
Qualification Requirements
- Crime incident must be reported to law enforcement within 72 hours or good cause is shown for the delay.
- Application must be filed within one year after crime date or within 2 years for good cause.
- Victim must fully cooperate with law enforcment, state attorney’s office and Attorney General’s Office.
- Victm must not have been engaged in an unlawful activity.
- Victim must not have contributed to his/her own injury.
- Victim or claimant must not have been in custody or confined at the time of the crime.
- Victim or claimant must not have been adjudicated as a habitual felony offender, habitual violent offender, violent career criminal, or adjudicated guilty of a forceable felony offense.
- A criminal background check will be conducted on all victims and/or claimants who submit a claim.
Click on the link below for the Victim Compensation application, this is a writable version that can be filled out online and then printed.
http://myfloridalegal.com/webfiles.nsf/WF/MRAY-762RHA/$file/CompappFORM.pdf
