It also provides you with lifelong care. The one point I would like to make about that is that ACC provides accident compensation--it provides lump-sum payments and other things. But we have had some very heart-wrenching cases. For example, people have come to Parliament and said that whilst they have ACC, that's okay, but they were burned in a tank they took out on an exercise and are covered with all these burns. They feel that ACC hasn't adequately compensated them for this, because they were under orders and were doing things they might not otherwise have done. So the military now has, in addition to accident compensation, an insurance-based scheme to make payments in addition to whatever the state provides through ACC to compensate for that. If you were just in uniform, served in a training camp, and did all those things, and you haven't been settled with, you are covered as an ordinary citizen.
On June 17th, 2008. See this statement in context.