Articles: ACC Claimants Support Group - ACC Focus
Friday, 13 January 2012 07:00
Benefit cheats: The $22m rip-off
Benefit fraud cost taxpayers a record $22.6 million last year, and nine social welfare staff were sacked for ripping off the system.Figures released to the Herald under the Official Information Act show fraud detected by the Ministry of Social Development has tripled from $7.5 million five years ago.At that time, the ministry set up a fraud intelligence unit because of an international trend towards increasingly elaborate scams, including the use of stolen and faked identities,…
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Friday, 23 December 2011 15:33
WINZ staff fired for breaching client privacy
Five South Auckland Work and Income staff have been fired for inappropriately accessing clients' files.The employees, all from the Manukau office, were fired for accessing information on family and friends.WINZ said there were "many breaches" by the staff and a national investigation has now been launched.
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Saturday, 27 August 2011 08:14
The missing evidence
Arthur Easton was fatally stabbed in his Papakura house as he and his six-foot sons fought an intruder.The boys, aged 16 and 18, described the offender as "a black b******" of about their height. The fatal wounds were delivered by a bayonet which the boys noticed only at the end of the fight and which was in the intruder's right hand.It happened about 8pm on 13 October 1985 and Arthur Easton, who was 52, died…
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Sunday, 21 August 2011 09:19
Health scams costing NZ millions
The health service has been scammed for $35 million over the past two years.The Ministry of Health says it recovered $8.4m of that in the last financial year. The previous year saw $11m recovered, and another $16.8m worth of fraud averted.Health boards say rorting the system is a growing problem but the ministry claims it is under control."Boards and the ministry are making it a priority to prevent fraud. Every dollar saved is a dollar…
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