Of the 37 programs that include an emergency award provision, 24 states and Washington, D.C., have statutes that set limits on how much a claimant can be granted under an emergency award, which are separate from the maximum allowable cap.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: Center for American Progress
  Hope After Harm: An Evaluation of State Victim Compensation Statutes

Sources

• Hope After Harm: An Evaluation of State Victim Compensation Statutes www.americanprogress.org Center for American Progress via serper

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• Washington D.C. location
• victim compensation concept