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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.
Completely failed : ACC to backpay years of compo to quake survivor
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Anna Leask is a senior reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask A woman almost killed in the Christchurch quake - crawling out of rubble with eight broken vertebrae - has been fighting ACC for more than a year to get injury funding and support reinstated after she was wrongly cut off in 2013.
Bonnie Singh was working as a receptionist at the Southern Ink tattoo studio in February 2011.
She was sitting chatting to trainee tattoo artist and close friend Matti McEachan when the city started to shake.