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Online brochure

Help for Crime Victims is found in our online brochure. It provides an overview of the available services through the Crime Victims Compensation program.

Crime Victims' Compensation forms

This comprehensive set of Crime Victims Compensation forms & publications includes the application for benefits and the Medical Certification of Time Loss.

Learn more About Crime Victim's Compensation.

Policies & procedures

• Crime Victims Compensation Program Policy Manual (245 KB PDF).
•  Get Help Downloading Files (files open in a new window).

Laws and regulations

• WAC 296-30 (www.leg.wa.gov)
  Rules for the administration of the crime victims compensation program.
• WAC 296-31 (www.leg.wa.gov)
  Crime victims compensation mental health treatment rules and fees.
• WAC 296-20 (www.leg.wa.gov)
  Medical aid rules.
• WAC 296-17 (www.leg.wa.gov)
  General reporting rules, audit and recordkeeping, rates and rating system for Washington workers' compensation insurance.
• WAC 296-33 (www.leg.wa.gov)
  Attendant services.
• WAC 296-23A (www.leg.wa.gov)
  Hospitals.
• WAC 296-21 (www.leg.wa.gov)
  Reimbursement policies: Psychiatric services, biofeedback, physical medicine.
• WAC 296-23B (www.leg.wa.gov)
  Ambulatory surgery center payment.
• WAC 296 (www.leg.wa.gov)
  All Sections.
• RCW 7.68 (www.leg.wa.gov)
  Victims of crimes — compensation, assistance.

Travel and property reimbursement

You may receive Travel and Property Reimbursement for travel costs for treatment and damaged personal property.

Related resources at other Web sites

• Crime Victim Compensation Directory (www.ojp.usdoj.gov)
  Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), U.S. Department of Justice.
• Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) (www.ojp.usdoj.gov)
  U.S. Department of Justice.
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (www.ncjrs.gov)
  Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
• King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office (www.kingcounty.gov).
• Office of Crime Victims Advocacy (OCVA) (www.commerce.wa.gov)
  Washington State Department of Commerce.
• Victim Services (www.srb.wa.gov)
  Washington State Indeterminate Sentence Review Board.
• Other state crime victim compensation Web sites (nacvcb.org)
  National Association of Crime Victim Compensation Boards (NACVCB).
• Victim/Witness Notification Program (www.dshs.wa.gov)
  The Victim Witness Notification Program of the Department of Social and Health Services is a confidential program that assists victims and witnesses of sexual assault or violent crimes track the location of the person who victimized them.
• Victim Services Program (www.doc.wa.gov)
  The Department of Corrections' Victim Services Program started in 1983, making it the oldest corrections-based victims program in the United States. The program serves as an advocate for victims and witnesses, and provides direct services by notifying enrolled victims and witnesses when offenders convicted of violent, sex, felony harassment, and serious drug crimes move through the prison system.
• Washington Coalition of Crime Victim Advocates (www.wccva.org)
  Established in 1984, this group of individuals, agencies, and organizations work to improve services for victims of crime and to strengthen victims' rights in Washington State by offering services to individuals and organizations advocating on behalf of crime victims in Washington State.
• Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (www.wcsap.org).
• The Washington Violence Against Women Network (WAVAWNet) (www.wavawnet.org).