Crime Victims Compensation Program CVCP

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Crime Victims Compensation Program (CVCP)

• How Can WE Help YOU Help
  VICTIMS access benefits from CVCP?

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Our vision

• Creating the HOPE of a better tomorrow for
  crime victims through our ACTIONS today.

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Our goal

• We work to reduce the financial impact of violent
  crime on eligible victims and their families,
  working in partnership with victim-assistance
  communities.

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Eligibility Requirements

• Occur in Washington
• Be a gross misdemeanor or felony
• Must be reported within 1 year to law enforcement
• Application must be received within 2 years of
  police report filing date
• Victim must provide reasonable cooperation with
  law enforcement to apprehend and convict the
  offender

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Eligibility Requirements

• Vehicular crimes must be vehicular assault
  (requires a conviction), vehicular homicide,
  failure to secure a load in the 1st degree,
• or DUI
• Injury cannot be as a result of consent,
  provocation or incitement
• Victim cannot be in the commission of a felony
  crime
• Victim cannot be incarcerated

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Compensation

• Medical bills - 150,000 maximum
• Time loss - 15,000 maximum
• Disability awards - 30,000 maximum includes time
  loss and vocational rehabilitation
• Limited pension - 40,000 maximum
• Vocational rehabilitation - 5,000 maximum
• Funeral bills - 7,097.32 FY 2007

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When Can CVC Start Paying?

• The Crime Victim Compensation Program is the
  payer of last resort
• We pay secondary to all private and public
  insurance benefits
• Victims must use providers covered under their
  insurance
• We pay secondary to Workers Compensation if the
  incident happened on the job

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Bill Payment Section

• CVC covers payment for all rape exams in the
  state (3,295 in fiscal year 2007)
• Providers must be registered with CVC to receive
  payment
• Victims must use primary insurance providers
• Receive 6,000 bills per month
• Process 96 within 50 days of receipt

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Make sure when sending a bill you ....

• Include your patients crime victims claim
  number
• Your CVCP provider number and tax account number
• The EOB from the patients primary insurance,
  even when they wont pay
• When you include this information it allows CVCP
  to pay your bill much more quickly

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2007 Fiscal Year Statistics Claims
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For additional information..

• WEB SITE
• www.CrimeVictims.Lni.wa.gov
• PHONE NUMBER
• 1-800-762-3716
• MAILING ADDRESS
• PO Box 44520
• Olympia, WA 98504-4520