Who is eligible for crime victim compensation

Who is eligible for crime victim compensation

If you are an innocent victim of crime AND answer yes to one of the questions below, you may be eligible for crime victim compensation.

• Were you physically injured as a result of the crime?
• Are you
  • under 18,
  • 60 or over, or
  • a person with a disability

       but were not physically injured as a result of the crime?

• Did your
  •  family member,
  •  spouse or domestic partner, or
  •  the person on whom you were dependent

       die as a direct result of the crime?

• Are you the family member, surviving spouse or domestic partner of someone who died as a direct result of a crime that happened in the home that you were sharing?
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• Are you a vulnerable elder, incompetent, or physically disabled person who cannot care for yourself?
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• Are you a victim of labor or sex trafficking?
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• Are you a resident of New York State who was a victim of terrorist acts that happened outside the United States?
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• Are you a victim of one of the following
  • Aggravated harassment
  • Criminal contempt
  • Criminal mischief
  • Criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation
  • Dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image
  • Harassment
  • Hate crime
  • Kidnapping
  • Menacing
  • Reckless Endangerment
  • Robbery
  • Stalking 
  • Unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image (“revenge porn”) 
  • Unlawful imprisonment
  • Unlawful surveillance

     but have not been physically injured?

• Are you a
  • child who was a victim of a crime
  • child who witnessed a crime, or
  • parent or guardian of a child victim or child witness?

You also may be eligible for compensation if you paid for the burial costs for a crime victim.