---
title: "Map a Victorian family claim onto the Financial Assistance Scheme distress amounts"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/map-a-family-claim-after-a-homicide-onto-the-published-assistance-amount/victoria"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A62-VC20261023-1-VIC"
practice_area: "Victims of Crime Support & Compensation"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["VIC"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Map a Victorian family claim onto the Financial Assistance Scheme distress amounts

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

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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 distress amount printed for that relationship. Do not choose the relationship and do not write the application. |
| What the lawyer must review | Decide who is a related victim and which distress band applies Check each relationship against a document, not a description given in conference Do not treat a printed band as the amount that will be paid. Character can change it. Use a firm-controlled tool for health records. ASCR r 9, APP 11 and the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) apply. |
| Written for | Victoria |
| 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 related victim to the Victorian distress band. The tool only 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 distress amount printed for that relationship. Do not choose the relationship and do not write the application.
- What the lawyer does: Decide the relationship and whether the printed band is the right one.
- 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. Guideline 18.4 prints $20,000 for a spouse or domestic partner, a child or step-child, a parent, guardian or step-parent, and a sibling or step-sibling.
2. The same guideline prints $6,500 for an intimate personal relationship, any other close family member, or a non-child financial dependant.
3. The applicant must be a related victim with a genuine personal relationship at the death. The scheme may pay more for the particular distress.
4. For a secondary or related victim, guideline 3.1 takes age from the applicant, not from the primary victim. Do not put that time rule into the amount row.

## Notes

- The guideline says the character of the primary victim or the related victim may affect the distress payment. The row does not decide character.
- There is no overall pool on the page. Each amount is the figure printed for that relationship.
- 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: Victorian Financial Assistance Scheme, related-victim distress

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

**Inputs**

- Death record
- Relationship documents the lawyer marks
- Current guideline 18.4

**Example**: Illustrative example: A document describes the applicant as a sibling. The table places $20,000 beside that label and notes that the scheme may pay more. It does not say $20,000 will be paid.

**Stop and escalate when**

- The relationship is only a description given in conference, with no document.
- The file is a primary-victim claim, so the related-victim bands do not apply.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [Victims of Crime Victoria: FAS guideline 18.4 Distress](https://www.victimsofcrime.vic.gov.au/financial-assistance-scheme-guidelines/assistance-related-victims/distress) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Victims of Crime Victoria: FAS guideline 3.1 Time limits](https://www.victimsofcrime.vic.gov.au/financial-assistance-scheme-guidelines/time-limits-apply/time-limits-primary-secondary-and-related-victims) (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.*