NCJ Number
248972
Date Published
December 2014
Length
0 pages
Annotation
This video and its transcript provide information on the International Terrorism Victim Expense Reimbursement Program (ITVERP), which is a Federal program that provides financial reimbursement for qualifying expenses to qualified U.S. citizens and U.S. government employees who have suffered direct physical or emotional injury from an act of international terrorism while outside the United States.
Abstract
In 2000, Congress amended the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to include authorization for the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) to establish a Federal program that would uniformly and equitably provide assistance to victims of designated terrorist acts for certain expenses, regardless of the victim's legal State of residence. Later that year, Congress established the ITVERP through the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, so as to reimburse certain expenses to eligible victims of acts of international terrorism. Eligible victims include U.S. nationals and foreign nationals working for the U.S. government at the time of the terrorist act. The program began operating on October 6, 2006. Through ITVERP, OVC provides reimbursement to victims of international terrorism and their families for expenses related to medical and mental health care, funeral and burial, repatriation of the victim's remains, property loss, and miscellaneous expenses such as emergency travel. ITVERP is funded through the Antiterrorism Emergency Reserve, a component of the Crime Victims Fund, which is financed by fines, penalties, and forfeitures paid by convicted Federal criminal offenders, as well as gifts, donations, and private bequests. This video includes testimonials from victims of terrorism and their families regarding how the program has benefitted them. terrorism and their families who have received ITVERP assistance.