ACC bonus pay for claimant cull
ACC's departing chief executive Ralph Stewart has rejected suggestions getting claimants off the corporation's books was a priority for ACC. Cabinet minister Judith Collins has admitted that ACC staff...
View ArticleMore ACC clients going on to welfare
The proportion of long-term ACC clients moving on to benefits has surged since the corporation adopted a tough new stance, which has fuelled allegations that they are being forced off compensation...
View ArticleFran O'Sullivan: Fashion designer's bold makeover for NZ
I reckon we should hold an annual "PM for a Day" event and invite fashion designer Annah Stretton to kick the first one off. It's not often you get to hear a Kiwi fashion maven talk about the...
View ArticleHerald on Sunday Editorial: ACC culture change overdue
Get two or more people talking and it won't be long before someone comes up with a disobliging story about the Accident Compensation Corporation. Along with the Inland Revenue Department, ACC has...
View ArticleACC architect says people paying more in levies than they should
The architect of the ACC scheme says the rejection of his pay-as-you-go design means people will pay 30 per cent too much in levies. Sir Owen Woodhouse said his original design was the only fair and...
View ArticleMatt McCarten: Launch inquiry to root out what has to be rotten
After Nick Smith, the previous minister of the Accident Compensation Corporation, its chief executive, the board's chairman and other assorted members all got the chop, you'd think new minister Judith...
View ArticlePrime Minister backs ACC staff
Prime Minister John Key is backing the way ACC staff, paid bonuses to reduce the number of long-terms claimants on the corporation's books, have handled claimants. The Green Party has criticised staff...
View ArticleACC's tougher line fails to satisfy independent reviewers
ACC decisions to cut long-term claimants loose from entitlements have been overturned by independent reviews at a higher rate since the corporation adopted a tougher approach to them three years ago,...
View ArticleLong-range battle with ACC over girl's care
The family of a girl left severely disabled after a medical misadventure is fighting a battle with ACC after the agency axed their overseas care payments. Since Paige Laming was born with cerebral...
View ArticleACC to make 'trust' a priority
Improving "trust and confidence" has replaced "cost containment" as the beleagured Accident Compensation Corporation's number one priority for the coming year in an agreement with its minister Judith...
View ArticleAuckland Brain Injury Association slams ACC policy
ACC's practice of paying staff bonuses for getting long-term claimants off their books would have a disproportionate impact on people with brain injuries, the Auckland Brain Injury Association chairman...
View ArticleACC shows kinder face, cuts back-to-work goals
ACC is to soften its drive to get long-term claimants back into work in the face of concerns it is pushing clients off its books before they are properly rehabilitated. The corporation yesterday...
View ArticleDogged haul to the spotlight for Green MP
Green Party list MP Kevin Hague has been making a name for himself with his stance against ACC Kevin Hague carefully counts his media appearances. In his first term in Parliament, the Green Party list...
View ArticleDamien Grant: ACC has taken a turn for the worse
In 1974, we gave up the right to sue for personal injury in return for a benevolent government department that would take care of us when we were injured. How has that worked out? The ACC is enduring...
View ArticleEditorial: ACC change must not go too far
Changing the "culture" of an organisation is a subtle exercise, requiring care to see that it does not go too far. The Minister in charge of the Accident Compensation Corporation, Judith Collins, has...
View ArticleEditorial: Confidence in Key survives run of errors
Our latest political poll has found the country's mood to be remarkably stable. National has 47.5 per cent of those surveyed, Labour 34 per cent, the Greens 9.1 per cent, NZ First 4.4 per cent, Mana...
View ArticleACC cuts carer's pay under minimum wage
A wife who looks after her brain-damaged husband has had her pay cut by ACC to less than the minimum wage. Linda Barlow, whose 69-year-old husband Bill suffered a brain injury as a jockey when he was...
View ArticleProvision for ACC hit by low rates
ACC says it is plausible that interest rates will stay lower over the long term, eroding the state-owned accident insurer's theoretical returns relative to the cost of future claims. The corporation's...
View ArticleMore ACC files sent to wrong client
Another ACC client has been sent a private document about someone else by mistake, while two inquiries are still under way into the last big leak of the corporation's confidential files. Former...
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