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  2. Crime Victims Fund - Wikipedia

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    The United States Crime Victims Fund, administered by the Office for Victims of Crime, is used to recompense victims of offenses against U.S. law. [1] [2] [3] The fund was established as part of the 1984 Victims of Crimes Act.

  3. Takeaways from AP's report on financial hurdles in state ...

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    Thousands of crime victims each year are confronted with the difficult financial reality of state compensation programs that are billed as safety nets to offset costs like funerals, medical care ...

  4. Title VI of the Patriot Act - Wikipedia

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    The percentage given to crime victim compensation programs [8] and for crime victim assistance [9] was lowered from 48.5% to 47.5%, while funds for demonstration projects, program evaluation, compliance efforts, training and technical assistance services to eligible crime victim assistance programs and for the financial support of services to ...

  5. Victims of Crime Act of 1984 - Wikipedia

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    The fund is financed by fines paid by convicted federal offenders. As of September 2013, the Fund balance had reached almost $9 billion. Revenues deposited into the Fund also come from gifts, donations, and bequests by private parties, as provided by an amendment to VOCA through the Patriot Act that went into effect in 2002. From 2002 – 2013 ...

  6. Compensation fund for Jeffrey Epstein victims opens; more ...

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    The administrator of a fund for victims of sexual abuse by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, which opened for claims Thursday, said that more than 100 victims or their attorneys have already ...

  7. Lenawee County judge sentences 'absolute menace on the road ...

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    She also ordered her to pay $5,694.70 in restitution to the Crime Victims Compensation Fund to reimburse the cost of Christoffers' funeral. Anzalone called this sentencing one of the most ...

  8. Charleston church shooting - Wikipedia

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    The Charleston church shooting, also known as the Charleston church massacre, was an anti-black mass shooting and hate crime that occurred on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, and one was injured, during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church , the oldest black church in the Southern ...

  9. Victims' rights - Wikipedia

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    The Crime Victim Fund, established together with the Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority, allows the provision of state compensation and of economic support for research, education and support on crime victims. [120] Crime victims became its own category of responsibility for Swedish social services in 2001 through the Social ...