Accident Compensation Act 2001

Entitlements and related matters - Vocational independence

113: Claimant who no longer has vocational independence regains entitlement to weekly compensation

You could also call this:

"You can get weekly payments again if you can't work anymore"

If you lose your vocational independence, which means you can't work, you might get weekly compensation again. The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) will decide if you've lost your vocational independence. If they decide you have, you'll start getting weekly payments again. These payments might start from the day ACC makes their decision, or even earlier if ACC chooses.

When you start getting weekly compensation again, you'll get the higher amount of two options. The first option is the amount you were getting before, but it will be adjusted for the time that has passed. The second option is a new amount based on the current rules. ACC will give you whichever amount is higher.

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Part 4Entitlements and related matters
Vocational independence

113Claimant who no longer has vocational independence regains entitlement to weekly compensation

  1. If the Corporation determines under section 109 that a claimant no longer has vocational independence, the claimant regains his or her entitlement to weekly compensation, and the regained entitlement starts from the date of the determination or an earlier date determined by the Corporation.

  2. On regaining entitlement to weekly compensation, the claimant is entitled to it at the higher of the following rates:

  3. the rate of compensation to which the claimant was entitled when he or she lost the entitlement, adjusted for the intervening period in the manner provided in section 115; or
    1. the rate of compensation to which the claimant is entitled under Part 2 of Schedule 1, calculated at the time that he or she regains the entitlement.
      Notes
      • Section 113(1): amended, on , by section 3 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act (No 2) 2003 (2003 No 80).