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title: "Map a New South Wales family recognition payment onto the published homicide amounts"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/map-a-family-claim-after-a-homicide-onto-the-published-assistance-amount/new-south-wales"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A62-VC20261023-1-NSW"
practice_area: "Victims of Crime Support & Compensation"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["NSW"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Map a New South Wales family recognition payment onto the published homicide amounts

> From the death record and the relationship documents the lawyer marks, list each family applicant, the relationship the document states, and the recognition amount printed for that description.…

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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 | From the death record and the relationship documents the lawyer marks, list each family applicant, the relationship the document states, and the recognition amount printed for that description. Do not choose the relationship and do not decide that a living-together clause is satisfied. |
| What the lawyer must review | Decide which family description applies, and apply the living-together clause as written Do not read the 2-year words into the amount list. The list does not repeat them. Do not treat a printed amount as a promise that it will be paid. Use a firm-controlled tool for health records. ASCR r 9, APP 11 and the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) apply. |
| Written for | New South Wales |
| Applies to | [Map a family claim after a homicide onto the published assistance amounts](https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/map-a-family-claim-after-a-homicide-onto-the-published-assistance-amount.md) |

## Checking plan

**Verify against sources**

The lawyer matches each family applicant to the recognition amount. The tool lists the relationship the document states.

- What the AI does: From the death record and the relationship documents the lawyer marks, list each family applicant, the relationship the document states, and the recognition amount printed for that description. Do not choose the relationship and do not decide that a living-together clause is satisfied.
- What the lawyer does: Decide which family description applies and whether the living-together clause is met.
- 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. The recognition page prints $15,000 for a financially dependent family victim of homicide, or a child of the homicide victim who was under 18 at the death.
2. It prints $7,500 for a parent, step-parent or guardian, a current spouse, or a de facto partner of a homicide victim.
3. The eligibility list says a parent, step-parent, guardian, current spouse or current de facto partner of a homicide victim who had lived with them for at least 2 years. The lawyer applies that clause as written. The amount list does not repeat those words.
4. A separate bullet covers a financially dependent family victim, and a child under 18 at the death. Do not add the 2-year words to those bullets unless the lawyer reads them that way.

## Notes

- Family victims of homicide apply within 2 years from the date the death was established as a homicide, or within 2 years of turning 18 if they were a child then. This row is the amount, not that period.
- The page says support may be reduced under the factors it states for section 44, including behaviour of the deceased that contributed to the death, and money already received from another source. The section text was not opened.
- Health records stay in a firm-controlled tool. ASCR r 9 and APP 11 apply, and a breach may be notifiable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: New South Wales Victims Support Scheme, family recognition payments

**Deliverable**: A relationship table set against the published family recognition amounts, for the lawyer to settle.

**Inputs**

- Death record
- Relationship documents the lawyer marks
- Current recognition-payment page

**Example**: Illustrative example: A document describes the applicant as a current spouse. The table places $7,500 beside that label and copies the eligibility sentence about living together for at least 2 years. It does not decide that the sentence is satisfied.

**Stop and escalate when**

- The relationship is only a description given in conference.
- The applicant is a primary victim, so the family amounts do not apply.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [NSW Government: Recognition payment](https://www.nsw.gov.au/legal-and-justice/information-for-victims-of-crime/victims-support-scheme/recognition-payment) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Legal Aid NSW: Victims Support Scheme](https://www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/my-problem-is-about/victims-rights/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. |
| [Related victim financial assistance application (Victim Assist Queensland Form 7)](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-qld-vaq-related-victim.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to Victim Assist Queensland Form 7 version 4, for a spouse, partner, parent, child, sibling or dependant after a homicide in Queensland. |

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.*