{"id":14653,"date":"2025-08-13T05:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14653"},"modified":"2025-08-13T05:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:13:19","slug":"how-acc-plans-to-manage-the-estimated-3-6b-cost-of-compensation-for-abuse-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14653","title":{"rendered":"How ACC plans to manage the estimated $3.6b cost of compensation for abuse survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A significant number of abuse victims could be eligible for ACC compensation following a landmark court ruling that could cost it billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>But ACC will not immediately be contacting everyone it believes might be eligible, due to fears of retraumatising them and its case managers being overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates and a survivor fear the corporation is stalling to avoid paying out.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark Court of Appeal decision &#8211; TN vs ACC, issued in December 2023 &#8211; made more childhood abuse survivors eligible for financial compensation. ACC estimated it could affect 100,000 people and cost it $3.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two years since the decision was issued, ACC has decided how it will &#8220;fully implement&#8221; the ruling from 29 September.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant number of abuse victims could be eligible for ACC compensation following a landmark court ruling that could cost it billions of dollars. But ACC will not immediately be contacting everyone it believes might be eligible, due to fears of retraumatising them and its case managers being overwhelmed. Advocates and a survivor fear the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14655,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14653\/revisions\/14655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}