Over 80 percent of the awards were for assault, 12 percent for sexual assault, five percent for homicide, and one percent for kidnapping. The monetary awards were based on medical expenses, pain, funeral costs, and loss of earnings. The Commission works closely with State Victim Assistance offices, which have increased their programs from servicing victims who are prosecuting their known assailants to include victims of unidentified criminals. Reasons for claim denials include mutual provocation, unresolved conflicting statements, same household cases, no police report filed, uncovered crimes, no prosecution of known suspect, lack of cooperation, collateral sources, no physical evidence of a crime, victim involvement in an illegal activity, lapse of 18-month reporting period, and lack of commission jurisdiction. 3 figures, 3 tables, 4 appendixes.