02 December 2025
Spencer Jones
[FYI request #32906 email]
Kia ora Spencer
Your Official Information Act request, reference: GOV-044491
Thank you for your email of 18 November 2025, asking for the following information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act):
Please provide the information in the same or similar tabular format as your previous proactive
releases (e.g., the COVID-19 Vaccination Claims Refresh documents published on acc.co.nz,
such as the July 2024 refresh), covering the ful period from the start of the COVID-19
vaccination programme (approximately February 2021) to the latest available date in 2025.
Specifical y, please include:
1. Total claims lodged for COVID-19 vaccine-related treatment injuries.
2. Claims by status:
o
Accepted/approved for cover
o
Declined
o
Withdrawn
o
Pending/under assessment
3. Accepted claims broken down by injury category/type (e.g., myocarditis/pericarditis,
anaphylaxis, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), Guil ain-Barré
Syndrome, shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA), death, and any
other categories including “other” – with details of what “other” comprises if possible).
4. Total payments made to date on accepted claims, including:
a) Overall total amount paid out (in NZD)
b) Breakdown of payments by category where available (e.g., treatment costs,
rehabilitation, lump-sum compensation, weekly compensation, fatal claims)
c) Number of claims that have received payments over certain thresholds (e.g.,
$10,000+, $50,000+, $100,000+)
d) Any ongoing/future liability estimates for accepted claims (e.g., projected long-
term costs)
5. Fatal claims:
o
Number of accepted claims related to deaths
o
Total amounts paid out for fatal claims
6. Confirmation that no other government organisations or departments (e.g., Ministry of
Health, Te Whatu Ora/Health New Zealand, Crown indemnity funds, or any special
COVID-19 vaccine injury scheme outside ACC) have made direct payments or
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compensation for COVID-19 vaccine-related injuries or deaths in New Zealand between
2020 and 2025. If any such payments have been made outside the standard ACC
treatment injury process, please provide details and totals.
If the exact format of previous refreshes is no longer used, please provide the data in
Excel/CSV or clear tables.
I request that this information be proactively released on the ACC website alongside
previous COVID-19 vaccination claims refreshes, as it is of significant public interest.
The information you have requested in part 3 of your request is attached in the appendix. Please refer to the Notes and Caveats when interpreting the data used for this request.
Claim counts fewer than four Some values in the table indicate that the claim count is fewer than four (denoted as <4). We are
withholding specific values for those claims to limit the potential of individuals, or matters specific to
individuals, from inadvertently being identified. This decision has been made under section 9(2)(a) of
the Act. We consider that the public interest in this information does not outweigh the reasons for
withholding it.
The information you have requested in parts 1, 2, 4a)-c) and 5 will soon be publicly available
Updated Treatment injury (TI) data will be published in January 2026. As this data will soon be publicly
available, we are not providing a copy of it in this response. This decision has been made under section
18(d) of the Act.
We are unable to provide the information you have requested in part 4d) and part 6
Information about
any ongoing/future liability estimates for accepted claims (e.g., projected long-term
costs) is not readily extractable via ACC's databases and would need to be created.
Under the Act, agencies are only required to provide information that they hold. The distinction
between information that is ‘held’ and ‘not held’ is further explained on page seven of the
Ombudsman’s guide available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/resources/making-official-
information-requests-guide-requesters. We are unable to confirm whether other government agencies
have made direct payments or
compensation for COVID-19 vaccine-related injuries or deaths in New Zealand between 2020 and 2025 as ACC does not hold this information.
Information requests relating to other government agencies are to be made directly to the relevant
agency. Noting this, we are refusing these parts of your request as the information is not held. This
decision is made under section 18(g) of the Act.
As this information may be of interest to other members of the public
ACC may publish a copy of this response on ACC’s website. All requester data, including your name
and contact details, will be removed prior to release. The released response will be made available
www.acc.co.nz/resources/#/category/12. Please also view this page about making requests and our
published response
s https://www.acc.co.nz/contact/official-information-act-requests.
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If you have any questions about this response, please get in touch
You can email me at
[email address].
If you are not happy with this response, you can also contact the Ombudsman via
[email address] or by phoning 0800 802 602. Information about how to make a
complaint is available a
t www.ombudsman.parliament.nz. Ngā mihi
Christopher Johnston
Manager Official Information Act Services Government Engagement
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