ACC's reputation is further tarnished with revelation that its staff are receiving financial incentives to kick long-term claimants off their books, a Whangarei-based ACC advocate says.
Jeanette Brock said she always suspected that ACC was involved in such practices, although the corporation never admitted it.
But ACC Minister Judith Collins two weeks ago admitted that ACC staff got higher pay for kicking long-term claimants off the corporation's books but defended the strategy as "a good thing" because it got clients back to work.
The financial incentives are just one of a number of tactics - including handpicking medical assessors - that ACC has adopted to improve its bottom line, Green Party MP Kevin Hague alleged.
Ms Brock said there should be no incentive to get people off their entitlements because that was not what the scheme was all about.