Thursday, October 11, 2007
ACC to benefit
A reader expressed an interest in how many people moved from ACC to a benefit. Here is a breakdown. In the year to August 2005 956 people moved from ACC to a benefit. Although the figures below only go to 2005 I have seen figures for the invalid's benefit up to 2007 which confirm the overall downward trend.
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ACC is one of this Government's best tools for mopping up unemployment.
Claimaints are stuffed around for longer and longer periods of time.
Every increase in the amount of time a case takes means more bureaucratic hours.
ACC levies are being spent on bureaucratic salaries in preference to payouts to claimants.
Thanks Lindsay, I was the poster who asked. I was wondering because I am currently having dealings with ACC. I have found the process exrtremely frustrating. Because I am now a student(I was working at the time of my injury) I dont qualify for any ACC payment, I also dont qualify for any student benefit, let alone work and income. Problem is my injury means my work prospects are extremely limited, studying has been a huge struggle physically, so my chances of getting work during holidays are slim to none. My contact with ACC has been also slim to none, it took 5 months to get equipment needed, as assessed by an occupational therapist ACC sent, so I can do my study(I'm an online student). A year to see a specialist, One and a half years of hardcore physio. The frustration is that if I had been directed to a specialist and an occupational therapist in the first three months I would probably be much more mobile now, and possibly ablre to work in a greater variety of jobs, but it seems that because Im not drawing any type of benefit I'm not a priority. I spoke to a case manager for the first time after 6 months and have had only 3 phonecalls since,all started from myself looking for the equipment they were ordering for me. ACC, in my experience, makes the rehab process LONGER and it would not surprise me to see longer term cases passed onto work and income.
Anything in common in comments 1 & 2.
Although the rate of increase in the number of ACC claimants is comparatively small, there was a 10 percent increase this year of the number of people going on the sicknes benefit with a primary incapacity code of "accident" - which begs the question as to why one Government department said they were classed as fully fit to work and cut off ACC in the first place only for a nother Govt dept to say, with medical backing, that they are not fit to work full time.
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