Media

http://www.3news.co.nz/Hearing-loss-sufferers-take-ACC-to-Human-Rights-Commission/tabid/309/articleID/219132/Default.aspx

Human Rights Commission Accepts Case Against ACC Injury Threshold

The Human Rights Commission has accepted NFD’s combined cases submission that the ACC 6 percent injury threshold and age deduction scale are discriminatory on the grounds of age and disability.  Read the media release here and the Dominion Post article dated 18 July with the Ministerial response here

Minister Turns Deaf Air TO ACC Cuts
Scoop.co.nz
The ACC Minister has turned a deaf ear to thousands of Kiwis opposing ACC cuts for people with work related hearing loss – with sweeping changes in place …

http://www.orl.org.nz/news/acc-hearing-loss-regulations-information–national-foundation-for-the-deaf/

Aid claims fall on deaf ears
New Zealand Herald
… jobs all his adult life and at 49 is still too young for normal age-related hearing loss, has been turned down for an ACC subsidy for a hearing aid. …

 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/4172796/ACC-changes-hit-older-people

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