{"id":3359,"date":"2024-11-20T08:21:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bannister.be\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2024-11-20T08:21:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:21:13","slug":"het-slachtofferfonds-voor-wie-wanneer-wat-en-hoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/het-slachtofferfonds-voor-wie-wanneer-wat-en-hoe","title":{"rendered":"The Victims' Fund: for whom, when, what and how?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/Depositphotos_314623986_xl-2015-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/Depositphotos_314623986_xl-2015-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/Depositphotos_314623986_xl-2015-1.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/Depositphotos_314623986_xl-2015-1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/Depositphotos_314623986_xl-2015-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/Depositphotos_314623986_xl-2015-1.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2>The Victims' Fund: for whom, when, what and how?<\/h2>\n<p>Victims of intentional acts of violence or their relatives may -under certain conditions- apply for financial assistance from the Victims' Fund (or full: <em>Fund for Assistance to Victims of Intentional Violence Crimes and Occasional Rescuers<\/em>) questions. For example, when the perpetrator is unknown or appears to be insolvent, the Belgian State contributes to compensate the victims.<br \/>Before you as a victim can claim this support, a number of conditions must be met.<br \/>We are happy to list them for you.<\/p>\n<h4>For whom.<\/h4>\n<p>Not every victim is entitled to a contribution. Only those who suffer serious physical or psychological damage as a result of intentional acts of violence - of which various sex crimes are also an example - are eligible.<br \/>Persons who suffer harm in providing assistance to a victim of an act of violence or to a victim who is in mortal danger are also entitled to a contribution.<br \/>Victims of traffic or property crimes, such as a theft, are excluded.<\/p>\n<h4>When?<\/h4>\n<p>The act of which one becomes a victim must have been committed in Belgium and the outcome of the subsequent criminal proceedings must be established, whether it is a dismissal for failure to identify the perpetrator or a final conviction of the perpetrator (although there are exceptions to the latter condition).<br \/>In addition, the victim must have tried to obtain compensation from the perpetrator, in case the perpetrator is obviously known.<br \/>However, if that same perpetrator proves insolvent, the Fund still intervenes, unless the victim can obtain compensation by other means, through his insurance, for example.<\/p>\n<h4>What?<\/h4>\n<p>There are four different categories of assistance provided by the Victims Fund: main assistance, emergency assistance, supplementary assistance and exceptional assistance.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main<\/em> is the contribution that covers the damage suffered.<br \/>In the context of <em>emergency<\/em> contribution is granted even though the outcome of the criminal proceedings is not yet known. Because in some cases there is a need for immediate help that cannot be delayed without a negative impact.<br \/><em>Additional help<\/em> can be requested if the injury, for which one has obtained principal assistance, has increased within the ten years.<br \/>And <em>exceptional aid<\/em> concerns, as the name suggests, an exception under which people can request additional assistance even after the expiration of a 10-year period.<\/p>\n<h4>How?<\/h4>\n<p>Applications to obtain a contribution must be submitted to the relevant commission in Brussels, together with various supporting documents.The secretariat then prepares a report, on which comments may be made by the victim, his lawyer and\/or the (delegate of the) Minister of Justice.<br \/>Testimony may possibly be given by the victim before the actual committee, in which the victim may be assisted by a lawyer.<br \/>The committee then starts an investigation and the decision is finally sent by mail.<br \/>If the decision violates the law, an appeal can be filed with the Council of State.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like more information about this, please feel free to contact us at info@bannister.be or 03\/369.28.00.<\/p>\n<p>November 10, 2020<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Het Slachtofferfonds: voor wie, wanneer, wat en hoe? Slachtoffers van opzettelijke gewelddaden of hun verwanten kunnen -onder bepaalde voorwaarden- een financi\u00eble hulp aan het Slachtofferfonds (of voluit: Fonds voor Hulp aan Slachtoffers van Opzettelijke Geweldmisdrijven en de Occasionele Redders) vragen.\u00a0Wanneer de dader bijvoorbeeld onbekend is of onvermogend blijkt, draagt de Belgische Staat bij tot het [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13236,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/13236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ondernemingsstrafrecht.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}