In addition to physical and emotional damage, domestic violence also has huge financial costs for individuals, as well as their families, following an act of abuse or as they work to pick up the pieces following an abusive relationship.

• The cost of intimate partner violence annually exceeds $5.8 billion, including $4.1 billion in direct health care expenses.• Between one-quarter and one-half of domestic violence victims report that they lost a job, at least in part, because of domestic violence.Women who experienced domestic violence were more likely to experience spells of unemployment, have health problems and be welfare recipients.• Domestic violence has been estimated to cost employers in the United States up to $13 billion each year.• In the United States, rape is the most costly crime to its victims, totaling $127 billion a year, including medical costs, lost earnings, pain, suffering and lost quality of life.• New research shows that intimate partner violence costs a health plan $19.3 million each year for every 100,000 women between the age of 18 and 64 enrolled.The National Network to End Domestic Violence