---
title: "Prepare a Victorian financial assistance scheme application"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/prepare-the-application-to-a-state-victims-support-scheme/victoria"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A62-V20261018-4-VIC"
practice_area: "Victims of Crime Support & Compensation"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["VIC"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Prepare a Victorian financial assistance scheme application

> From the lawyer's register and the documents the lawyer marks, complete the Financial Assistance Scheme fields for identity, the assistance sought and the attachments. Do not write what happened to the client.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/prepare-the-application-to-a-state-victims-support-scheme/victoria  
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 lawyer's register and the documents the lawyer marks, complete the Financial Assistance Scheme fields for identity, the assistance sought and the attachments. Do not write what happened to the client. |
| What the lawyer must review | Confirm the scheme, the victim type and the published time limit Check every field against the documents before the client approves it The tool writes nothing about the violent act |
| Written for | Victoria |
| Applies to | [Prepare the application to a state victims support scheme](https://ailawframework.com/practice/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/prepare-the-application-to-a-state-victims-support-scheme.md) |

## Checking plan

**Verify against sources**

The lawyer confirms the Victorian scheme, the victim type and the published limits. The tool fills only the fields the lawyer has marked.

- What the AI does: From the lawyer's register and the documents the lawyer marks, complete the Financial Assistance Scheme fields for identity, the assistance sought and the attachments. Do not write what happened to the client.
- What the lawyer does: The lawyer chooses the scheme and the assistance sought, checks every field, and confirms the client approves the application.
- 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. Confirm the applicant is a primary, secondary or related victim and whether the violent act was reported to police within a reasonable time, or that special circumstances are relied on.
2. Apply the Financial Assistance Scheme time-limit guideline. A person who was 18 or over at the violent act has 10 years from the last violent act for a sexual offence or family violence, and 3 years from the last violent act for other offending. A person who was under 18 has no time limit for child abuse or family violence, and must otherwise apply before turning 21. For a related victim of a death in family violence, an adult applicant has 10 years and a child applicant has no time limit.
3. List only the assistance the page allows a primary victim to seek, including counselling, medical expenses, safety items, clothing, loss of income for up to 2 years up to the published $21,134, and other expenses only in exceptional circumstances.
4. Treat special financial assistance as additional, up to $20,000 for a single offence or $25,000 for multiple offences, and do not fold it into the assistance pool.
5. Stop if the application would state what happened to the client. That account is inserted only as the client gives it.

## Notes

- The primary victims page states an assistance figure of $63,401. The special financial assistance guidelines say special financial assistance sits outside a $61,499 maximum, and a footnote says that maximum is indexed under section 72 of the Act. The two pages do not use the same figure. Use the current indexed amount.
- Practice Note SC GEN 25 does not govern this administrative scheme. If a later court document is prepared from the file, follow that practice note.

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: Victorian Financial Assistance Scheme for victims of crime

**Deliverable**: A draft application for the lawyer and the client to check, with the narrative of the violent act left blank.

**Inputs**

- Lawyer's eligibility and deadline register
- Marked police, medical and expense documents
- Current Financial Assistance Scheme guidelines

**Example**: Illustrative example: An adult primary victim of an assault seeks medical expenses and loss of income. The draft lists those heads and the attachments. It does not describe the assault. The lawyer checks the three-year limit and the published loss-of-income cap before the client approves the application.

**Stop and escalate when**

- The violent act has not been reported and no special circumstance is instructed.
- The draft would describe what happened to the client.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [Victims of Crime Victoria: financial assistance for primary victims](https://www.victimsofcrime.vic.gov.au/financial-assistance-primary-victims) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Victims of Crime Victoria: Financial Assistance Scheme guidelines, special financial assistance](https://www.victimsofcrime.vic.gov.au/financial-assistance-scheme-guidelines/special-financial-assistance) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [Victims of Crime Victoria: Financial Assistance Scheme guidelines](https://www.victimsofcrime.vic.gov.au/financial-assistance-scheme-guidelines) (checked 2026-10-23)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Victim Assist Queensland request for funeral expenses](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/form-qld-victim-assist-funeral-expenses.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the Victim Assist page for funeral expenses after a violent crime: a related victim claiming online uses Part A, then Part B, and the email path uses a Funeral Only PDF that was not opened.… |
| [Application for support (NSW Victims Support Scheme)](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/form-nsw-victims-application-for-support.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the current Victims Support Scheme Application for support, for counselling, financial assistance and a recognition payment, with the time limits stated on the making-an-application page. |
| [FAS client authorisation form, where the representative is a lawyer: completion guide](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/form-vic-fas-client-authorisation.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the Financial Assistance Scheme client authorisation of July 2026, which the scheme uses instead of a statutory declaration when the authorised representative is a lawyer. |
| [FAS offline legal costs payment application: completion guide](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/form-vic-fas-legal-costs.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the Financial Assistance Scheme form lawyers use to claim reasonable legal costs for a complex application when they cannot apply online. |
| [Victims Support Scheme application (NSW): who can apply, the online application and what depends on the victim's situation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-nsw-victims-support-scheme-application.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the NSW Government's Victims Support Scheme page and online application, with a guide to who the scheme covers (violent crime, modern slavery and road crime), what varies by situation, and… |
| [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.… |
| [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. |
| [Application for financial assistance (Victim Assist Queensland): who can apply and how to lodge](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-qld-victim-assist-application.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the Queensland Government's page for applying to Victim Assist Queensland, with a guide to who can apply, the reporting requirement, online and PDF applications, and the victim's own account. |
| [Letter asking police for a report for a victims application](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/police-report-request-victims-application.md) | Letter | Yellow | A letter asking police for a copy of a report or statement about a violent incident, so it can be used with a victims assistance application.… |
| [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. |
| [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.… |
| [Parent secondary victim financial assistance (Victim Assist Queensland Form 8)](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-qld-vaq-parent-secondary.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to Victim Assist Queensland Form 8 version 3, for a parent injured by learning of an act of violence against their child in Queensland. |
| [Adult cultural support plan (Victorian Financial Assistance Scheme)](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-vic-fas-cultural-support-adult.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the FAS adult cultural support plan for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicant. |
| [Financial Assistance Scheme application (Victoria): applying, nominating someone to help, and the support available](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-vic-financial-assistance-scheme-application.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to Victoria's Financial Assistance Scheme help page, with a guide to nominating someone to apply on the victim's behalf, legal, language and cultural assistance, and the Marra Yattakunar… |
| [Criminal injuries compensation application (Western Australia): eCourts lodgment, the 3-year limit and supporting documents](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-wa-criminal-injuries-compensation-application.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the WA Office of Criminal Injuries Compensation lodgment page, with a guide to lodging through the eCourts Portal (required for solicitors), no fee, the 3-year time limit and extension… |
| [Letter asking a practitioner for records or a report for a victims application](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/health-report-request-victims-application.md) | Letter | Yellow | A letter asking a doctor, dentist or counsellor for existing records, or a short factual letter, to support a victims assistance application.… |
| [NSW recognition payment: supporting documents checklist](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/recognition-payment-documents-checklist-nsw.md) | Checklist | Green | The documents Victims Services asks a primary victim to lodge with a recognition payment application, and the 12 months the page allows for a late medical, dental or counselling report. |
| [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.… |
| [Witness secondary victim financial assistance (Victim Assist Queensland Form 9)](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-qld-vaq-witness-secondary.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to Victim Assist Queensland Form 9 version 4, for a person injured by seeing or hearing an act of violence in Queensland. |
| [Child and young person cultural support plan (Victorian Financial Assistance Scheme)](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/form-vic-fas-cultural-support-child.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to the FAS cultural support plan for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child or young person, including the parent or guardian consent. |
| [Letter supporting a victims assistance application](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/victims-of-crime-support-and-compensation/victims-application-supporting-letter.md) | Letter | Yellow | A covering letter to the victims assistance body, sent with the application and the reports the scheme's page asks for.… |
| [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. |
| [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.*