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Fill out your name and email address below.  Your concern will then be emailed to the following people:

Hon Dr Nick Smith
Minister for ACC
Parliamentary Office
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings,
Wellington 6160

Dr Jan White
ACC Chief Executive
Shamrock House
81-83 Molesworth Street
PO Box 242
Wellington

Christopher Blake
Department of Labour Chief Executive
P.O. Box 3705
Wellington

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Dear Minister

*Opposition to ACC Cuts for Hearing Aid Cover*

I want to express my opposition to, and concern about, the new ACC regulations for hearing aids and hearing assessments.

Anyone with a noise induced hearing loss needs their hearing aid to help them cope with everyday life – regardless of how old they are.

Half a hearing aid is no use and won’t help anyone with their hearing loss.  Many ACC claimants who have been injured with permanent hearing loss helped build New Zealand through industries like farming, forestry and manufacturing.

There are a lot of reasons why the changes are unfair and wrong.  Here are just three of them:
Noise induced hearing loss is a permanent disability.  It doesn’t get fixed as you get older.Many people whose hearing was irreversibly damaged by noise in the workplace will no longer be able to get help to hear, they simply won’t be able to afford it.
Many people will be confined to a life with significant hearing loss, and the isolation and depression that comes with that.

This cut won’t just affect me and my quality of life. It is estimated that for every person who has lost their hearing due to noise injury eight other people in their family group or friends will be impacted.

Please listen to my opposition to the new ACC regulations.

I want the Government and ACC to honour its commitments and obligations to people of New Zealand who have had their hearing permanently damaged through no fault of their own.

Please overturn these regulations in the interests of tens of thousands of New Zealanders living with noise-induced hearing loss.

Yours sincerely

[your-name]
[your-email]

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