Election 2020 - Party Policies - Health - ACC
25th Jul 20, 5:55am
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Accident Compensation Corporation
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- Ensure all people who have a genuine work-related gradual process injury, disease or infection, including occupational overuse injuries and chemical poisoning, can obtain ACC cover.
- Vocational Independence Assessments are reoriented so that their primary purpose is to help claimants plan how best to return as much as possible to their pre-injury life.
- Revoke requirements of co-payments.
- Put the emphasis back on obtaining the best outcome for clients, rather than the best financial outcome for ACC.
- Create an independent ACC Ombudsman and the opportunity to have past abuses of individual rights independently investigated.
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- Investigate legislative changes to free ACC from strict requirements when considering income when paying compensation for victims of serious crime
- Review the operations of dispute processes at ACC to ensure that claims are client centred and resolved within a timely manner
- Amend rules for victims of serious crime and those who have ongoing life debilitating injuries from having to continually supply documentation to ACC for their annual compensation and entitlements
- Ensure that ACC contributes to Kiwisaver when workers are receiving weekly compensation
- Amend the way backdated compensation is taxed so claimants are not subject to pay tax at a higher rate when receiving lump sum payments.
- Review the changes to the work-related gradual process test for injury cover
- Ensure the Dean Report recommendations regarding the cost to review are lifted to address the barriers to review for those on modest incomes
- Amend legislation so that ACC claims can be challenged in the Supreme Court
- Provide certainty to claimants by ensuring that review decisions are enforceable
- Update and review the list of Occupational Diseases to provide financial support to those who have been exposed to carcinogens through their work and have developed cancer as a result
- Require ACC to recognise occupational cancers among Firefighters
- Read more here.
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