# Legal Assistance Program (LAV)

**Agency:** Justice  
**Account:** Appropriation 1  
**Source document:** Office on Violence Against Women · p. 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/justice/legal-assistance-program-lav  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2027 | request | 40.0 |

## Justice discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $37.40B, FY2026 $36.40B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Provides grants for free legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in civil and criminal legal matters.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Justice › Office on Violence Against Women › Appropriation 1 › Legal Assistance Program (LAV)


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*