---
title: "Check a compensation decision against the program’s categories and limits"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/check-a-victims-scheme-decision-against-the-categories-and-limits/united-states"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A62-V20261018-7-US"
practice_area: "Victims of Crime Support & Compensation"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["US"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-22"
---

# Check a compensation decision against the program’s categories and limits

> Table each item allowed or refused in the decision against the category and the document in the file. Do not draft the appeal.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/check-a-victims-scheme-decision-against-the-categories-and-limits/united-states  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Victims of Crime Support & Compensation](https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | Table each item allowed or refused in the decision against the category and the document in the file. Do not draft the appeal. |
| What the lawyer must review | You decide whether the decision matches the state program. 34 U.S.C. § 20102 sets conditions for a federally funded program, including the medical, wage-loss and funeral categories, and it does not set the dollar cap or the appeal path. Open the decision, the program statute and the appeal deadline before you advise. An appeal paper is yours. Opinion 512: do not file generated citations. |
| Written for | United States |
| Applies to | [Check a victims' scheme decision against the categories and limits](https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/check-a-victims-scheme-decision-against-the-categories-and-limits.md) |

## Checking plan

- What the AI does: Table each item allowed or refused in the decision against the category and the document in the file. Do not draft the appeal.
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 22 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Notes

- Do not import an Australian review tribunal or a redress-scheme offer.
- The appeal deadline is in the state program. It is not in § 20102.

## Sources

- [34 U.S.C. § 20102, Crime victim compensation](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/34/20102) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [ABA Formal Opinion 512, Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools (29 July 2024)](https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/professional_responsibility/ethics-opinions/aba-formal-opinion-512.pdf) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [Office for Victims of Crime, Support to states](https://ovc.ojp.gov/states) (checked 2026-10-22)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Primary victim financial assistance application (Northern Territory): completion guide](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-nt-primary-victim-assistance.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the Northern Territory primary victim financial assistance application. The page gives no form number. One claim only for the same violent act.… |
| [NSW recognition payment: category and amount worksheet](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/recognition-payment-category-worksheet-nsw.md) | Checklist | Yellow | A worksheet matching a NSW recognition payment application to the amounts and applicant classes published by Victims Services, with the time frames on that page flagged for checking against the Act. |
| [Victoria Financial Assistance Scheme: eligibility and time limits](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/vic-fas-eligibility-time-limits.md) | Checklist | Yellow | Checklist of who the Victorian Financial Assistance Scheme says can apply, and the time limits the scheme's page states for adults, children and funeral-only applicants. |
| [Family victim financial assistance application (Northern Territory): completion guide](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-nt-family-victim-assistance.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the Northern Territory family victim financial assistance application. The page gives no form number.… |
| [Primary victim application (ACT Financial Assistance Scheme): completion guide](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-act-primary-victim-assistance.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the ACT primary victim application for financial assistance, on the Human Rights Commission forms page. The link text states no form number. The file name includes a June 2025 string.… |
| [Victim Assist Queensland: payment types by victim category](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/qld-victim-assist-payment-types.md) | Checklist | Yellow | Checklist of the payment types and upper figures the Queensland victims guide states for each victim category, so a decision or a draft claim can be checked against that page. |
| [Related victims and homicide witnesses application (ACT): completion guide](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-act-related-victim-assistance.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the ACT related victims and homicide witnesses application on the Human Rights Commission forms page. The link text states no form number.… |
| [NSW victims support: instructions where support may be reduced or refused](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/support-reduced-or-refused-instructions-nsw.md) | Memo | Yellow | A note of the facts a lawyer needs before advising on a possible reduction or refusal of NSW victims support, using the factors the recognition payment page says s 44 includes. |
| [Internal review checklist for a NSW victims support decision (categories, amounts and reasons)](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/victims-support-internal-review-checklist-nsw.md) | Checklist | Yellow | Checklist to test a NSW victims support decision and prepare an internal review application: the 90-day limit, written grounds, eligibility, category and amount of recognition payment or financial… |
| [Application for Victims of Crime Assistance (Tasmania): completion guide](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-tas-victims-assistance.md) | Form | Red | Link to the Tasmanian Application for Victims of Crime Assistance. The financial assistance page states that the application is a statutory declaration and must be witnessed. The lawyer writes it.… |
| [Extension of time (Tasmanian Victims of Crime Assistance): completion guide](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-tas-victims-extension-of-time.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the Tasmanian Application for Extension of Time for Victims of Crime Assistance. The page does not give a form number. The assistance application itself is a separate statutory declaration.… |

Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*