weekly compensation Archive

  • Kevin Hague

    ACC disentitlement saga a shameful exercise from start to finish - by Kevin Hague



    Four years ago the District Court decided that ACC claimants who were not earners at the time of their original injury, but who later became incapacitated from subsequent employment due to that injury, were not entitled to weekly compensation. Irrespective of the legal technicalities, it was an anomalous decision for a compensation scheme that is [...] read more
    December 9, 2010 11:04 am - 6 Comments
  • Kevin Hague

    More questions than answers over ACC cost shifting - by Kevin Hague



    A couple of months ago, following ACC Minister Nick Smith’s u-turn on counselling for ACC sexual abuse claimants, I called for an independent review of the wide-ranging cutbacks to ACC imposed by the Government. I have now asked some questions about people being moved from ACC to welfare benefits. What really disturbed me about the replies is the huge increase in the number of people being shifted from weekly compensation onto welfare benefits since March 2009. read more
    October 6, 2010 4:39 pm - 8 Comments
  • frog

    Nick Smith: I don’t know and I don’t care - by frog



    Nick Smith doesn’t know the most basic statistical information necessary to determine the likely extent of cost containment or the impact on claimants of going back to the 1999 work capacity policy. What’s more, he’s not even prepared to have ACC do the analysis to find out. What a shambles! read more
    December 3, 2009 9:59 am - 2 Comments
  • frog

    Gutting ACC – it’s just not fair: Vocational independence - by frog



    This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m doing to explain National’s plans to gut ACC and highlight how unfair they are. One of the proposed changes is to vocational independence assessments.  These assessments are used by ACC to decide if an ACC claimant receiving weekly compensation for loss of earnings is [...] read more
    October 16, 2009 9:41 am - 9 Comments