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Cabinet minister Judith Collins has admitted that ACC staff get higher pay for kicking long-term claimants off the corporation's books but defends the strategy as "a good thing" because it gets the 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 alleges.

ACC documents obtained by Mr Hague yesterday showed case managers' pay was bumped up when they exceeded management targets, including reducing the number of long-term claimants being paid weekly compensation.

Should ACC offer staff incentives for reducing long-term claimants? Here is the latest selection of Your Views:

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2. Digby says
   "The alternative is allowing ACC to become a defacto Work and Income and encouraging benefits above productive work."
3. john constable says
   "Judith Collins should be sacked for the appaling way she runs ACC. I know of many people who had legitimate claims turned down by this ogre of a corporation."
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