To receive financial help from CVC, you must be a victim of a compensable crime that happened in Oregon. Compensable crime means an intentional, reckless, or criminal act (not an accident) by a person that causes injury or death to another person. 

You may report your crime in one of the following ways:

• Report to law enforcement

• Report to a medical or mental health provider

• Obtain a protective order

• Obtain a forensic medical exam due to sexual assault or strangulation

However, if you did not report a compensable crime, you may still qualify for a Counseling Only benefit.

Victims of a compensable crime or incident who do not meet reporting requirements may still qualify for compensation for counseling expenses up to $5,000. Contact CVC for more information at 503-378-3758 or cvssd@doj.state.or.us.

We pay health and service providers for crime-related expenses, including:

• Medical and counseling services, up to $20,000.

  In cases of child physical and sex abuse, counseling compensation can include counseling for the victim’s family to assist the victim in healing.

• Counseling benefit when reporting requirements for a compensable crime are not met, up to $5,000.

• Counseling for children who witness domestic violence, up to $10,000.

• Grief counseling for survivors of a deceased victim, up to $20,000.

• Counseling benefit for witness to homicide, up to $5,000.

• Counseling for friends or acquaintances of a deceased victim of a compensable crime who discover the deceased victim’s body, up to $5,000.

• Counseling for family members of an Oregon resident who is a victim of international terrorism, up to $1,000.

• Rehabilitation services, such as physical therapy, up to $4,000.

• Reimbursement of mileage (50¢ per mile) for travel to medical and mental health treatment, up to $3,000. Mileage reimbursement is available only when someone must travel more than 60 miles roundtrip and there are no closer services.

• Documented loss of earnings, up to $600 weekly, or loss of support for dependent(s) of a deceased victim, up to $800 weekly, for a maximum of $20,000.

• Lost wages for parents who provide care to their minor child victim while the child heals from the abuse, up to $5,000. Intermittent leave for doctor appointments does not qualify.

• Crime scene clean-up, up to $2,500.

• Funeral expenses, up to $5,000. Additional benefit available at discretion of CVC. 

The injury or death resulted from your own criminal conduct.

• The crime involved only property damage or loss.

• The injury or death resulted from a noncriminal event (an accident).

• The crime occurred before CVC became effective in January 1978.

You can apply online, on paper, or in person.

• Apply online at the CVC Portal: doj.state.or.us/cvcportal

• Download a printable application form at doj.state.or.us/compensation.

Send or email the completed application to: Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division

1162 Court Street NE, Salem, OR 97301-4096

Telephone: 503-378-5348

Fax: 503-378-5738

Email: cvssd@doj.state.or.us

• Apply at your local District Attorney’s Office Victim Assistance Program or local community-based victim services agency

When CVC receives an application, we review policereports, medical charts, and other information todetermine if you’re eligible and which CVC benefits youmay be eligible for. If you do not meet the reportingrequirements, you may still qualify for a counselingbenefit. We notify you by mail or email when we receiveyour application, and then again in 45–60 days to tell youour claim decision.

If you have other benefits available (health insurance, autoinsurance, workers compensation, Paid Leave Oregon,etc.), you must use those before we can pay expenses.CVC will pay for copays, deductibles, and crime-relatedtreatment that insurance does not cover within the scopeof this program.If you receive crime-related money later (such asrestitution or lawsuit settlements) for the same servicesCVC has paid for, you must pay back to CVC any moneythat was paid to you.