Checklist · Victims of Crime Support & Compensation
NSW recognition payment: category and amount worksheet
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.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- New South Wales
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the authority it cites, for New South Wales.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a primary victim or a family victim of homicide asks what recognition payment the NSW Victims Support Scheme publishes for their circumstances. The lawyer checks the category against the Act and the evidence. This is not the application and not the victim's account.
Used for these tasks
- Check a victims' scheme decision against the categories and limits
- Build the victims' claim eligibility and deadline register
- Prepare the application to a state victims support scheme
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may place the facts the lawyer has already accepted beside the categories on the Victims Services page; the lawyer decides the category and whether the application is in time.
AI may
- Set the published categories out beside a short description the lawyer has already written
- Enter the incident date, the victim's date of birth and a candidate time limit, flagged for checking
AI must not
- Must not decide the category or that the person is eligible
- Must not draft or outline the victim's account of the violence or its impact
- Must not treat the web page as a substitute for the Victims Rights and Support Act 2013
The lawyer checks
- The category is checked against the current Act, not only against the web page
- The time frame on the page is checked against s 40 and any later amendment before the client is told a date
- Section 25 (people who are not eligible) and s 44 (when support may be declined or reduced) are read before a category is advised
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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