---
title: "Line injury reports against New South Wales recognition payments"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/line-injury-reports-up-against-recognition-payment-categories-before-lod/new-south-wales"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A62-KE20261022-7-NSW"
practice_area: "Victims of Crime Support & Compensation"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["NSW"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Line injury reports against New South Wales recognition payments

> Quote each description of the violence and its effect from the reports the lawyer marks, with the report name and page, beside the published payment descriptors the lawyer selects. Do not choose an amount.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/line-injury-reports-up-against-recognition-payment-categories-before-lod/new-south-wales  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-25

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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 | Quote each description of the violence and its effect from the reports the lawyer marks, with the report name and page, beside the published payment descriptors the lawyer selects. Do not choose an amount. |
| What the lawyer must review | Choose the published amount from the type of violence, not from a medical percentage Check the effect report is a medical, dental or counselling report If that report is late, apply the 12-month lodgement rule before the file is closed |
| Written for | New South Wales |
| Applies to | [Line injury reports up against recognition-payment categories before lodgement](https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/line-injury-reports-up-against-recognition-payment-categories-before-lod.md) |

## Checking plan

**Verify against sources**

The recognition-payment page sets dollar amounts by the type of violence. A primary victim also needs a report of the effect. The tool does not choose the amount.

- What the AI does: Quote each description of the violence and its effect from the reports the lawyer marks, with the report name and page, beside the published payment descriptors the lawyer selects. Do not choose an amount.
- What the lawyer does: The lawyer chooses the published amount, checks the quotations, and decides what is sent to Victims Services.
- Who reviews: Lawyer competent in this practice area
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 23 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Checks the lawyer makes

1. Use the amounts on the recognition-payment page: $15,000 for a financially dependent family victim of homicide or a child under 18 of the person who died; $7,500 for a parent, step-parent, guardian, current spouse or de facto partner; $10,000, $5,000 and $1,500 for the primary-victim bands that page describes.
2. Do not treat the bands as injury percentages. The page bases the amount on the type of violence.
3. For a primary victim, check there is a report of what happened and a medical, dental or counselling report of the effect.
4. If the effect report is not lodged with the application, record the 12-month period. The page says the recognition-payment application is closed if the report is not sent in that period.

## Notes

- Not every offence has a recognition-payment category. The page says so.
- Family victims of homicide use a different document list. Do not apply the primary-victim medical report rule to them without the family-victim page.

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: NSW Victims Support Scheme, recognition payments

**Deliverable**: A comparison table of report extracts against the published payment descriptors, with the amount left blank.

**Inputs**

- Report of what happened
- Medical, dental or counselling report
- Recognition-payment page checked on the day

**Example**: Illustrative example: A counselling report describes the effect of a sexual assault that did not cause serious bodily injury. The table quotes the report and leaves the amount blank. The lawyer decides whether the published $5,000 band applies.

**Stop and escalate when**

- There is no report of the effect for a primary victim and the 12-month period is not diarised.
- The tool selects a dollar amount.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [NSW Government: recognition payment through the Victims Support Scheme](https://www.nsw.gov.au/legal-and-justice/information-for-victims-of-crime/victims-support-scheme/recognition-payment) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [NSW Government: Victims Support Scheme](https://www.nsw.gov.au/legal-and-justice/information-for-victims-of-crime/victims-support-scheme) (checked 2026-10-23)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Victims Services recognition payment: amounts, time and documents](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-nsw-victims-recognition-payment.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the Victims Services recognition payment page: the published amounts, who the page says may apply, the time limits printed on that page, and the documents a primary victim is asked to provide. |

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.*