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Petition Launched to Stop Government's Clawbacks from weekly compensation

Acclaim Otago is calling on Members of Parliament to urgently amend the Social Security (Accident Compensation and Calculation of Weekly Income) Amendment Act 2026, following the submission of a public petition highlighting serious concerns about its impact on injured New Zealanders.

The petition requests that the House of Representatives introduce key safeguards into the legislation to ensure fairness and prevent undue hardship. Specifically, it calls for limits on the recovery of supplementary benefit payments received in good faith or where delays in ACC claim recognition were not caused by the claimant. It also seeks to exclude Disability Allowance and rehabilitation-related supplementary assistance from recovery provisions, introduce a hardship and proportionality safeguard, enable decision-making discretion, and remove the retrospective application of the law.

Petition

Submission of Acclaim Otago (Inc)

Social Security Amendment Bill about Retrospective Reassessment of Supplementary Assistance Following ACC Back payment

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