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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Management of the Scheme - General administration

249: Penalties due to Corporation in respect of overpayments

You could also call this:

“Penalties for getting too much money from ACC by mistake or on purpose”

If you get an overpayment from the Accident Compensation Corporation, you might have to pay extra money back as a penalty. There are two types of penalties:

If you don’t tell the Corporation something important that you should have known about, and this causes an overpayment, you’ll have to pay back 10% extra on top of the overpayment.

If you knowingly tell the Corporation something wrong to get money you shouldn’t have, you might have to pay back up to three times the amount of the overpayment.

Remember, you always have to pay back the overpayment itself. These penalties are extra money you have to pay on top of that.

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Part 6 Management of the Scheme
General administration

249Penalties due to Corporation in respect of overpayments

  1. The following penalties are payable to the Corporation by a person who receives an overpayment from the Corporation:

  2. a penalty of 10% of an overpayment if the overpayment is made as a result of a failure by the person to inform the Corporation of any matter that the person ought to have known was relevant to the payment:
    1. a penalty of up to 3 times the overpayment if the overpayment is made as a result of an incorrect statement knowingly made by the person on any matter relevant to the payment for the purpose of receiving a payment to which the person was not entitled.

      1. The liability to pay the penalty is in addition to the liability to repay the overpayment.