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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Entitlements and related matters - Social rehabilitation

84: Assessment and reassessment of need for social rehabilitation

You could also call this:

"Checking what help you need after getting hurt"

When you get hurt, the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) checks what help you need to get better and live your life. This is called social rehabilitation. They look at what you need and make a plan to help you.

ACC can do these checks themselves or get other people to do them. They might do both. They can do new checks if your situation changes or if they think you might need different help.

When ACC checks what help you need, they think about lots of things. They look at how well you could do things before you got hurt and how well you can do them now. They think about what's hard for you because of your injury and what kind of help might make things easier.

ACC also thinks about what they want to achieve by helping you and how to do it in the best way without spending too much money. They might give you some help so you can go to work if that's part of your plan.

They also think about where you live and, if they're checking again, they look at whether anything they gave you before needs to be replaced. They also see if anything has changed for you since the last time they checked.

ACC gives all the important information about you to the person doing the check, whether that person works for ACC or not.

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Part 4Entitlements and related matters
Social rehabilitation

84Assessment and reassessment of need for social rehabilitation

  1. An assessment under this section assesses a claimant's need for social rehabilitation and identifies the specific social rehabilitation that the claimant needs.

  2. The Corporation may—

  3. do assessments and reassessments, itself, by using appropriately qualified assessors employed by the Corporation; or
    1. appoint and pay as many appropriately qualified assessors as it considers necessary to do assessments and reassessments; or
      1. both.

        1. A claimant's need for social rehabilitation—

        2. may be reassessed from time to time; and
          1. must be reassessed if the Corporation considers that the claimant's condition or circumstances have changed.

            1. The matters to be taken into account in an assessment or reassessment include—

            2. the level of independence a claimant had before suffering the personal injury:
              1. the level of independence a claimant has after suffering the personal injury:
                1. the limitations suffered by a claimant as a result of the personal injury:
                  1. the kinds of social rehabilitation that are appropriate for a claimant to minimise those limitations:
                    1. the rehabilitation outcome that would be achieved by providing particular social rehabilitation:
                      1. the alternatives and options available for providing particular social rehabilitation so as to achieve the relevant rehabilitation outcome in the most cost effective way:
                        1. any social rehabilitation (not provided as vocational rehabilitation) that may reasonably be provided to enable a claimant who is entitled to vocational rehabilitation to participate in employment:
                          1. the geographical location in which a claimant lives:
                            1. in the case of a reassessment,—
                              1. whether any item that the Corporation provided for the purposes of social rehabilitation is in such a condition as to need replacing:
                                1. changes in the claimant's condition or circumstances since the last assessment was undertaken.

                                2. The Corporation must provide to an assessor (whether employed or appointed by the Corporation) all information the Corporation has that is relevant to the assessment.