20.11.1 Client is TPI (VEA) for same condition as for SRCA entitlement

This is a straightforward matter and procedures are no different to the situation where the client is in receipt of an ordinary rate of pension for the same incapacitating ailment. Here the principle to be applied is that a person is not entitled to be compensated beyond the value of the loss, by accessing two Acts for the same injury.

The SRCA delegate informs the VEA administrators that weekly compensation is payable and the TPI pension is ceased or limited accordingly.

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