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Reasons for Denied Applications (FY 2024)

Source: “Ineligible Crime” includes crime not substantiated, request not compensable or allowed by policy, no crime, property damage, and “Ineligible Application” includes applicant not an eligible party, unjust enrichment, application filed out of state, duplicate application, no economic loss, incarcerated, probationer, parolee convicted of a crime. Office for Victims of Crime, "VOCA Victim Compensation Data Dashboard," accessed January 28, 2026, https://ovc.ojp.gov/funding/performance-measures/data-analyses/voca-victim-compensation/. Total includes US territories.

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Every day, nearly 130 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence.

Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Provisional Mortality Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death, 2020–2024; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA, Market Research Study #26602, 2022.

Last updated: 1.15.2026