ACCs rehabilitation

I worte this earlier in the week and it is clear that ACC is about getting people off ACC through its vocational assessments that don`t actually rehabilate.

The problem with ACC is the maximum length of time allowed for vocational rehabilitation under the ACC Act is three years. Meaning if you haven't been rehabilitated properly you are shafted to hide the fact that ACC can' rehabilitate you. What this essentially means is that ACC sends you on a vocational assessment, and if that doesnt shaft you they then send you on another one. Then another one. Some people have been on six in the past three years. ACC want to send as many people on vocational assessments as they can so they say they have " rehabilitated" people.

This isn't rehabilitation and if ACC thinks it is, then they should be funding legal fees for people who challenge decisions who are now on benefits - or don't qualify because their partner works - because they are not rehabilitated, despite paying ACC levies so they can get rehabilitated should they have an accident. If you have had a Vocational Assessment in the past year and have been shafted please leave a note with contact e-mail details.

Govt assesses man to be a university lecturer although has reading age of seven

Willie Allen is a former panelbeater and has a reading age of seven. He is currently on the invalids benefit because he was kicked off ACC because ACC said he was fit enough and able to do the job of a university lecturer, a receptionist, or a property manager. ACC manager Gerard McGreevy stated on Nine to Noon that the reading age was irrelevant, that Allen's reading was not tested by ACC, but he could work. Allen's ACC vocational assessor wasn't told abut his reading age.

Allen couldn't read the letter that kicked him off ACC and a now has a lawyer who also spoke on RNZ. McGreevy couldn't tell Kathryn Ryan how many people have been kicked off ACC and are on benefits but said that ACC occupational assessors do a very good job.

Pity Kathryn Ryan didn't ask whether the assessors did a good job assisting in rehabilitation or a good job in removing people from the ACC scheme on to benefits. If you are on ACC and have a letter telling you that you have an appointment for a vocational assessor, you should be letting your lawyer know because that is the first step in kicking you off ACC because they will most likely tell you you can do a job that you either can't do, are unfit to, do or are over or under qualified to do.

And once the tell you that, you`ll need to visit Work and Income because your Weekly Compensation will be cut.

Proof: ACC financially motivates private investigators to seek convictions of claimants

ACC have been forming contracts with private investigators to cut people off ACC rather than investigating relevant information about claimant activities, including possible fraud.

The private investigators are financially motivated to produce criminal prosecutions as their mission. In fact this particular contract specifically says that 80 per cent of referrals made to investigate ACC claimants are to result in either a prosecution, cessation or suspension of entitlement, civil action, or some sort of positive action. Of these, ACC also expects 95 percent of prosecutions to be successful.

What if there is no proof that 30 percent of those investigated have done anything illegal? Well, you prosecute some of them so you can keep your contract - and the ACC case manager gets another brownie point for his KPI.

This is not uncovering fraud, this is maintaining targeted contractual obligations irrespective of whether fraudulent behavior occurs. As it is ACC, anyone who is taken to court purely so a PI can meet a contract target cannot sue. These contracts are therefore illegal, so why is a Government department permitted to run with illegal contracts?