Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
Do you qualify for disability allowance? If you go to the doctor regularly, you might be able to get it covered.
I have a disability allowance, but you are only allowed costs related directly to your disability so 4 visits per year - ordinary stuff like lung infections and breast lumps are not included.
Unfortunately untreated infections tend to make my underlying condition worse so I’m kind of over a barrel.
I will ask for it to be updated (you have to provide receipts and doctor signatures for each thing). Updating is a bit dicey because sometimes other things drop off due to clerical error. Also, they seem to pride themselves on only paying partial costs, e.g if the medicine costs $19 they might pay you $11.
Ah that sucks. My experiences with WINZ are that things could be a lot simpler but they almost seem designed to be unnecessarily dificult.
Yeah you’re right, it’s partly the design, KPIs, and lack of transparency, but I think it’s also an institutional culture of lack of accountability - staff aren’t trained very well, but they also feel free to act arbitrarily. I’ve witnessed behaviour that would have got the staff member a written warning at my former workplace (an institution).
I have an actionable plan to disestablish WINZ, all the government needs to do is ask 😆
Sounds good!