With the changes in ACC legislation since compulsory accident insurance was first introduced the question has really become how much will be lost in annual income if an insured person is suspended from ACC and is forced to rely on a social welfare benefit.

The direct cost of using our company to employ your personal Service Manager* is set out in our scale of fees. We recognise that the initial cost of ensuring that your ACC files are in order may be prohibitive as an upfront expense, so we have generated a pay as you go advocacy service to meet your long term needs as the first consideration.

• Our Registered Client* plan is paid for by way of a one off up front payment of $200.00 in conjunction with a $20.00 weekly direct credit that is made to a stand alone bank account. The stand alone bank account is administered by a bank other than Advkit Para Legal Services* normal trading bank, as a protection for any funds that accumulate to the credit of our individual clients.

• The individual client's automatic payments are reconciled each month and a running balance is electronically maintained in the dedicated database employed by Advkit Para Legal Services in its file management of each client.

• On the first trading day of each month the previous months invoices have any debits payable to them credited from the clients individual credit balance arising from their automatic payments.

• A monthly reconciliation fee of $3.50 applies. 

• In the event that more work is done for a client in any one month than what has been received as direct credits, any negative balance owing by the client is carried forward to the following month. This continues until a negative balance has aged for three months, at which time the client will be requested to pay only the balance of the aged three-month account. This means that a client does not have to find large individual sums to have their ACC affairs looked after by a Service Manager*, as the cost is spread in an even manner throughout the year.

Alternatively a client may elect to pay as they go within 14 days of the receipt of an invoice.

The cost of employing a personal Service Manager is set out in the published scale of fees and is as follows: -

• Mandatory annual client registration

• Mandatory lodging of a Power of Attorney

• Mandatory preparation of a data based strategic report to be held on file when completed. The strategic report is a mandatory expense, as the report identifies the characteristics that are unique to each individual client’s relationship with ACC and becomes an important tool in plotting the course of combating present or future adverse decisions that may be made by ACC.

• Following the completion of the strategic report any of the specified costs that are set out in the scale of fees are administered, as and when an agreed management event takes place.