Labour plan to extend compo.
PA Wellington The next Labour government might extend the accident compensation scheme to cover incapacity through serious illness. Hints of this have emerged from an interim report of a study of the scheme by the. Labour
caucus committee chaired by the member for Hastings (Mr D. J. Butcher). He said that important, changes were needed to preserve the original intention of the scheme. Labour would present a revision of it in its policy programme for the. 1981 Genera! Election. Some aspects of the policy would be announced, at the party’s conference next month, he said. However, he hinted at Labour’s present thinking saying any 7 revision of the scheme must explore the means by which accident compensation might be extended to cover incapacity from serious illness. The great difference in benefits available to the accident victim, compared with victims of serious illness, was a “basic anomaly,” at which Labour would take a “very hard look,” Mr Butcher said.
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