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NEARLY 3,000 local residents injured at work over the past decade have been contacted to reevaluate their compensation payments. icare, the state compensation manager, has written to more than 22,000 people in the North Coast and New England as some may have been underpaid. This includes 2,877 people in the Kempsey, Port Macquarie, and Taree postcode areas. icare was founded in 2015 to manage employee claims for damages. In 2012, a new law was introduced in NSW that regulates the calculation of compensation payments. “It was only after icare implemented a new online claims management system that we were able to retrospectively assess how the weekly workers’ compensation payments were calculated by the insurers,” said an icare spokesman. “So in 2019 we checked a sample of payments and found some incorrect calculations. In some cases, this may have resulted in people being underpaid. As a result, the review and correction program was designed and implemented.” The review program includes weekly payments between 2012 and 2019. Identified workers should have received a letter from icare describing the reassessment process. The spokesman said the historical payments review revealed that income information used to determine weekly compensation payments was not made available to the insurer at the time in some cases. “In these areas (Kempsey, Port Mcquarie and Taree) there are 2,877 workers who have been contacted to have their previous compensation payments reassessed to ensure they are receiving the correct entitlements,” the spokesman said. “By July 30, 2021, icare has reevaluated approximately 8,604 eligible claims from across New South Wales. A total of 281 employees found that they underpaid a total of just over $ 3 million in weekly benefits. ”For more information, visit www.icare.nsw.gov.au/assessment or call 6714-8003. Locals urged to be chest conscious of COVID bites Molly O’Neill of Kempsey Shire reflecting on her 100th birthday Group 3 rugby league awaiting news of the length of the lockdown so you can continue to access our trusted content :

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August 17, 2021 – 1:30 p.m.

NEARLY 3,000 local residents injured at work over the past decade have been contacted to reevaluate their compensation payments.

icare, the state compensation manager, has written to more than 22,000 people in the North Coast and New England as some may have been underpaid.

This includes 2,877 people in the Kempsey, Port Macquarie, and Taree postcode areas.

icare was founded in 2015 to manage employee claims for damages.

In 2012, a new law was introduced in NSW that regulates the calculation of compensation payments.

“It was only after icare implemented a new online claims management system that we were able to retrospectively assess how the weekly workers’ compensation payments were calculated by the insurers,” said an icare spokesman.

“So in 2019 we checked a sample of payments and found some incorrect calculations. In some cases, this may have resulted in people being underpaid. As a result, the review and correction program was designed and implemented.”

The review program includes weekly payments between 2012 and 2019.

Identified workers should have received a letter from icare describing the reassessment process.

The spokesman said the historical payments review revealed that income information used to determine weekly compensation payments was not made available to the insurer at the time in some cases.

“In these areas (Kempsey, Port Mcquarie and Taree) there are 2,877 workers who have been contacted to have their previous compensation payments reassessed to ensure they are receiving the correct entitlements,” the spokesman said.

“By July 30, 2021, icare has reevaluated approximately 8,604 eligible claims from across New South Wales. A total of 281 employees have found they underpaid a total of just over $ 3 million in weekly benefits. “

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