This week, Leigh Austin caught up with the ACC Guru's at our Kerikeri Office. We regularly meet up with Leigh to keep up-to-date with what's happening at ACC and to ask her all of our "curly" questions.

You may have noticed ACC levies on motor vehicle registrations and fuel went down this year. ACC would like more levies to be reduced and would like public opinions before they make their recommendation to the government.

The government has the final say, so the more submissions ACC receives the better. ACC's annual public levy consultation runs from 1 October 2015 to 31 October 2015, the dedicated website to have your say is www.shapeyouracc.co.nz.

ACC is proposing to reduce the earner levy rate, which will affect everyone who earns a salary or wage. So get submitting and encourage the government to accept ACC's proposals.

ACC acknowledges there are some delays in the processing of CoverPlus extra applications, but rest assured, the date your application is received by ACC is the date you will be covered from. If you are not on CoverPlus extra and would like to know more, give me a call at our Kerikeri Office.

Lastly, here are a few ACC statistics you may not have known:

·         Of the 1,788,891 ACC claims in 2013, only 211,582 were work related and a whopping 1,098,793 were at home or in the community.

·         45% of at home claims were due to falls and 6% were animal related, so keep safe this weekend (and try not to trip over the cat).

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Janine Telfer (aka ACC Guru)