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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Entitlements and related matters - Individual rehabilitation plan

77: Assessment of needs and content of plan

You could also call this:

"Figuring out what you need to get better and putting it in a plan"

When the Corporation is making a plan for your rehabilitation, they need to think about what you need. They do this by looking at what the law says rehabilitation should do.

Your rehabilitation plan will include several things. It will list what you need to get better. It will say what tests or checks you might need. The plan will also talk about services that could help you, even if the Corporation doesn't have to provide all of them. Finally, it will clearly state which of these services the Corporation will give you, pay for, or help pay for.

The Corporation has to think about two main types of help you might need. One is called social rehabilitation, which helps you in your daily life. The other is vocational rehabilitation, which helps you with work. The law tells the Corporation exactly where to look to figure out what you might need for each of these.

However, if you only need help to keep the job you already have, the Corporation doesn't have to look at your needs for vocational rehabilitation.

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Part 4Entitlements and related matters
Individual rehabilitation plan

77Assessment of needs and content of plan

  1. In preparing an individual rehabilitation plan, the Corporation must assess the claimant's needs for rehabilitation having regard to the purposes in sections 79 and 80.

  2. An individual rehabilitation plan must—

  3. identify the claimant's needs for rehabilitation; and
    1. identify the assessments to be done; and
      1. identify services appropriate to those needs, whether or not the Corporation is liable to provide any or all of those services; and
        1. specify which of the services identified under paragraph (c) that the Corporation will provide, pay for, or contribute to.

          1. For the purposes of subsection (2)(a), the Corporation must assess a claimant's needs for—

          2. social rehabilitation under section 84 and clauses 13 to 23 of Schedule 1; and
            1. for vocational rehabilitation under sections 89 to 96.

              1. However, the Corporation is not required to assess a claimant's needs under subclause (3)(b) if the claimant's needs are solely related to maintaining employment.