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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 16:42 |
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Victims and survivors of sexual abuse are caught in a bureaucratic nightmare that has seen just 32 people approved for counselling nationally in the first two months of this year, Labour’s Victims Rights spokesperson Lynne Pillay says.
“In January and February 2009 ACC approved 472 sensitive claims enabling survivors of sexual abuse to access the counselling services they need. This year however just 32 people nationally have had their cases for counselling approved for the same period.
“While 112 people have had their cases for ACC support declined, hundreds of people are languishing in no man's land waiting for their claims to be processed,” Lynne Pillay said.
“If this is the National Government’s idea of frontline services, then heaven help anyone who needs support.
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Monday, 08 March 2010 07:38 |
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After a recent appeal decision, Dunedin ACC campaigner Denise Powell is urging ACC to "do the right thing" by reinstating compensation payments to about 170 people, including sexual abuse victims.
However, ACC spokesman Laurie Edwards says it will not be reinstating the payments, ended last year, until there is further clarification of the law involving claimants who became incapacitated in later employment by an earlier injury they received when they were non-earners.
ACC is seeking leave to appeal to the High Court over the key points of law involved in the recent Dominique Vandy versus ACC appeal decision, in which Judge Martin Beattie, sitting at the Hamilton District Court, found the previously-injured claimant had weekly compensation coverage.
Judge Beattie upheld the appeal by Ms Vandy, who received shoulder and hip injuries when she fell from a horse at age 12, while a non-earner, in 2003.
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Good idea... ...
