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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Entitlements and related matters - General provisions

126: Corporation to pay amount to claimant's estate

You could also call this:

"ACC pays money owed to you to your family after you die"

If you die and there's money that the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) owed you or would have owed you if you had asked for it, your family can still get that money. This applies to most types of payments, except for one-off lump sum payments.

Here's how it works:

If ACC owed you money when you died, or if you could have claimed money from ACC but didn't, your family can ask for it. They need to do this within three years after you die. If they do, ACC will pay that money to your estate, which means it becomes part of your belongings that get shared out after you die.

Remember, this doesn't include lump sum payments, which are big one-off payments. Those are handled differently.

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Part 4Entitlements and related matters
General provisions

126Corporation to pay amount to claimant's estate

  1. This section applies to any entitlement (other than lump sum compensation under Part 3 of Schedule 1) that is a payment that the Corporation—

  2. is liable to make to a claimant, but that has accrued and is unpaid at the date of the claimant's death; or
    1. would have been liable to make to the claimant, if he or she had lodged a claim for it.

      1. The Corporation is liable to pay any amount to which this section applies to the claimant's estate if the estate applies for it within 3 years after the date of the claimant's death.