Available Family Violence Payments
Uniting Escaping Violence Payment
The Escaping Violence Payment (EVP) program can help you move forward and set up a home free of violence. To access this payment you must be:
- An Australian citizen, permanent resident or holder of a protected special category visa living in Australia
- 18 years or over
- Experiencing financial stress and have not accessed Escaping Violence Payment in the last 12 months
- Planning to change or have changed your living arrangements within the last 12 weeks due to intimate partner violence, and no longer in that relationship.
Services Australia Crisis Payment
A one-off non-taxable payment if you’ve experienced an extreme circumstance and are in severe financial hardship. There are different types of Crisis Payments for different extreme circumstances. As part of the claim process, you have to speak with a social worker. They will ask you for both:
- Evidence of the extreme circumstance. This could include you experienced an incident of family and domestic violence that forced you to leave your home or you stayed in your home after experiencing domestic violence and the family member responsible left or was removed from the home.
- Permission to contact someone else who can confirm your circumstances.
Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal (VOCAT)
VOCAT provides financial assistance to victims of violent crime committed in Victoria. VOCAT assists victims to recover by providing financial assistance for expenses incurred, or reasonably likely to be incurred, as a direct result of the crime. For more urgent needs, an application for interim financial assistance (generally medical, counselling or funeral expenses) can be made prior to the final determination of an application for financial assistance.
