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The Government is maintaining current levy rates for the next 2 years, as part of a set of changes to help ease the financial pressures of COVID-19 providing certainty for businesses and New Zealanders, ACC Minister Iain Lees-Galloway says.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC

ACC’s Non-Earners’ Account gets a boost both for now and for the future with recent shift to ensure it keeps up with demand, ACC Minister Iain Lees-Galloway says.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC

The 2020 Budget includes significant support to stabilise New Zealand’s family violence services, whose work has been shown to be so essential throughout the COVID-19 lockdown.

  • Hon Poto Williams
  • Jan Logie
  • ACC
  • Children
  • Corrections
  • Courts
  • Education
  • Health
  • Justice
  • Māori Development
  • Police
  • Social Development

As the Minister for ACC I thank you all for the work that you do supporting New Zealanders in their literally most vulnerable moments.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC

The Government is able to improve the wellbeing of older working New Zealanders and those working overseas with the passing of the Accident Compensation Amendment Bill says the Minister for ACC Iain Lees-Galloway.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC

Kiwi businesses will save around $100 million over the next two years thanks to reduced ACC Work Account levies that take effect this Monday 1 April, says ACC Minister Iain Lees-Galloway.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC

A $22 million investment by ACC into workplace injury prevention grants and subsidies will help make it easier for Kiwi businesses to keep their workplaces healthy and safe, says ACC Minister Iain Lees-Galloway.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC

The Minister for ACC Iain Lees-Galloway today announced two new appointments to the Board of ACC. The new appointments commence 1 February 2019.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC

The Government’s decision to reduce the ACC Work Levy will save New Zealand businesses $100 million over the next two years, say Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and ACC Minister Iain Lees-Galloway.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • Prime Minister
  • ACC

ACC Minister Iain Lees-Galloway and Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni will be spending Wednesday September 5 in wheelchairs to promote World Spinal Cord Injury Day and raise awareness of pressure injuries in New Zealand.

  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC
  • Disability Issues

ACC will invest a further $1.7m over the next three years to support the expansion of Gandhi Nivas, an early intervention service that provides emergency accommodation and counselling for perpetrators of family violence, says Minister for ACC Iain Lees-Galloway.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC

The Government is proud to support ACC’s partnership with Pasifika experts Le Va on a groundbreaking $5.9 million, five-year campaign to help eliminate family and sexual violence, and suicidal behaviour among Pasifika young people in New Zealand, say ACC Minister Iain Lees-Galloway and Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • Hon Aupito William Sio
  • ACC
  • Pacific Peoples

Falls, sports, and vehicle accidents are the leading causes of traumatic injuries among the 161 people covered by the New Zealand Spinal Cord Injury Registry’s first report, says ACC Minister Iain Lees-Galloway.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC

Survivors of sexual abuse will receive much-needed support with increased funding for sexual abuse assessment and treatment services, ACC Minister Iain Lees-Galloway announced today.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • Jan Logie
  • ACC

The Accident Compensation Amendment Bill, which has passed first reading in Parliament today, will provide greater support to New Zealand families and working superannuitants, says the Minister for ACC Iain Lees-Galloway.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC

‘Tis the season for family, celebration and plenty o’ merriment so let’s make sure the holidays aren’t spent in hospital, says Minister for ACC Iain Lees-Galloway.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC

The ACC Board will be joined by experienced director David May from 1 January 2018, the Minister for ACC Iain Lees-Galloway announced today.

  • Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
  • ACC