Summary of Criminal Injuries Compensation Programs
Prov Include secondary victim? Time limit 1 Interim awards? 2 Police report required (co-operation)? Reduction or denial if victim culpable Max. awards Periodic payments Offender notified?
BC Yes 1 year Yes Report is not required, cooperation is Yes No maximum provided, some maximums provided for different types of offences. Yes No
AB No 3 2 years Yes Yes Yes $110,000 Yes No
SK Yes 1 year Yes Yes Yes $25,000 Yes No
MB Yes 1 years Yes Yes Yes $186,000 Yes No
ON Yes 2 years Yes No, but it would be taken into consideration Yes, denial $25,000 or $1,000 / month Yes Yes, if there is no conviction
PQ Yes 1 year Yes Yes Yes No maximum, except in relation to salary replacement: up to 90%, maximum $53,500. Yes No
NB Yes 1 year Yes Yes Yes $5,000 No No
NS 4 Yes 1 year No Yes Yes $2,000 Yes No
NF 5 - - - - - - - -
PE Yes 1 year Yes Yes Yes $15,000 per person No
NU 6 - - - - - - - -
YT 7 - - - - - - - -
NW 6 - - - - - - - -

NOTES:

  1. In most provinces, the Board may extend the time limit for filing an application.
  2. The Board may consider awarding interim payments if: the victim is in actual financial need and it appears to the Board it will probably grant compensation to the applicant.
  3. A survivor of a homicide victim can apply for death benefit.
  4. The Criminal Compensation program in Nova Scotia no longer provides monetary compensation for lost wages, medical/dental and /or funeral services to a person harmed as a result of a violent crime. The program will now provide only counseling for victims. Interim awards are not offered as counsellors are paid directly by the program.
  5. The Crimes Compensation program in Newfoundland was abolished in 1992.
  6. The Crimes Compensation program in the Northwest Territories was abolished in 1996. Nunavut has the same Act.
  7. The Crimes Compensation program in the Yukon Territories was abolished in 1993.