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Christchurch quake victim gets $236K in backdated ACC - more than half taken to 'repay' benefits she needed to survive

Christchurch quake victim gets $236K in backdated ACC - more than half taken to 'repay' benefits she needed to survive
16 Feb, 2021 07:54 PM
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Anna Leask is a senior crime and justice reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask
A Christchurch woman badly injured in the 2011 quake and wrongly cut off from ACC payments is owed more than $236,000 in backdated compensation - but more than half will be used to refund another
government department for benefits she was forced to seek to survive.
Tattoo artist Bonnie Singh is now appealing the "debt" and feels ACC should repay it out of its own coffers, saying if her weekly compensation wasn't stopped she never would have needed benefits.

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