# 2024-31012: Justice Department Takes Back Its Own Crime Victim Rule

2024-31012, Victims of Crime Act Victim Compensation Grant Program; Withdrawal, is a Federal Register proposed rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-06, effective 2025-01-06 (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31012
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2024-31012
- Title: Victims of Crime Act Victim Compensation Grant Program; Withdrawal
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-06
- Effective: 2025-01-06
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## In one line

Justice Department Takes Back Its Own Crime Victim Rule

## Summary

The Department of Justice is pulling back a proposed rule that would have changed how victim compensation grants work for states and territories. After hearing thousands of comments, they decided to keep the current guidelines for now and take more time to think it over. No money changes or new rules will happen yet, so things stay steady while they plan next steps.

## Abstract

The Office of Justice Programs ("OJP"), a bureau of the Department of Justice and the component under which the Office for Victims of Crime ("OVC") resides, is withdrawing a proposed rule that was published in the Federal Register on February 5, 2024, which proposed to add a subpart to its regulations to replace the existing Victim Compensation Program Guidelines under the Victims of Crime Act, and update and codify requirements for that Program.

## Effects PRIA read

- Proposed Victim Compensation Rule Withdrawn: benefit, low. On January 6, 2025, the Department of Justice withdrew the February 5, 2024 proposed rule (89 FR 7639) that would have replaced the Victim Compensation Program Guidelines. The existing Victim Compensation Program Guidelines (published May 16, 2001) remain in place; the Office of Justice Programs sa…

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## Sources
- [2024-31012 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/06/2024-31012/victims-of-crime-act-victim-compensation-grant-program-withdrawal)
- [2024-31012 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-06/pdf/2024-31012.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31012 (as of 2026-06-11).