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Half Norway’s population received money from NAV in 2017
Every second resident of Norway received a benefit from NAV at least once in 2017, and one in three received a benefit as a substitute…
Nav paid NOK 7.1 billion to people abroad last year
Nearly 80,000 people living abroad received 7.1 billion kroner from Nav in 2017. More than half of the money went to pensioners. In total, Norwegian…
Unemployment drops among immigrants
6.1 percent of immigrants in Norway were registered as unemployed in the first quarter of the year. It is 1 percentage point lower than a…
Nav discovered fraud after payments to taxi driver
After Nav discovered that a taxi driver had received hundreds of thousands of kroner in support, even though he worked, the payments continued for several…
HELP WANTED: 50k Workers needed in Norway
The Norwegian Labor Welfare Administration’s (NAV) latest labor survey reveals Norwegian companies offering almost 50,000 job positions; and that there’s not enough applicants seeking work…
Fewer received unemployment benefits, but recipients received more
The number of persons living in Norway who receive unemployment benefits decreased by 11% last year.During the same period, the amount of unemployment benefits received…
Nav stopped child support (barnetrygden) for 17,000 children abroad
17,000 children stayed so long abroad in 2017 that Nav stopped paying child allowance. The reason for their foreign stays were not recorded. According…
HELP WANTED: NAV’s 71% Labour Improvement
The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) has released its latest employment indicators with a whopping overall 41% reduction in notice of termination / hard…
Automatic registration of exemption card provides faster handling at NAV
Since January of last year, the automatic registration of paid health fees and issuance of exemption cards has provided for both shorter processing time and…
NHO and Nav will be involved in integration
The leaders at NHO and Nav consider it urgent to help refugees into work. They are asking Norwegian companies for integration. 27,000 refugees will…
More younger, and fewer elderly disabled people
The number of disabled people increased to 325,900 in 2017, shows the annual report from Nav. In total, 9.6% of the working- age population are…
Decline in unemployment in January
The number of people registered as fully unemployed fell by 2,200 in January, according to seasonally adjusted figures from Nav. Unemployment has decreased in…
1,048 people reported for benefit fraud in 2017
In 2017, Nav reported welfare fraud to a total of NOK 187 million. A total of 1,048 people have been reported. Over the last five…
Nav: – Social Security Benefit costs will sky rocket
Nav estimates that Nav benefit payments in the year 2060 will increase to between 20 and 90 billion NOK from today’s payments. The increase…
Fewer receive disability unemployment benefits
At the turn of the year, 140,600 people received disability unemployment benefits. That’s 5,600 fewer than a year ago, Nav says. The figure of…
Unemployed in South Western Norway not willing to move
Unemployed in South Western Norway are unwilling to move The unemployed in Rogaland and the Agder counties are least willing to move in order to…
Unemployment figures stable at 4%
There were 111,000 unemployed registered in Norway in October last year. That is 4.0% of the workforce, and a 0.1% decline since July, showed seasonally…
Nav apologizes for long processing times
Processing times of unsuccessful applications take too long,agrees Nav. Neither do appeal cases in the ‘Trygderetten’ get dealt with soon enough. Among the cases…
Less unemployed than expected by Nav
Less unemployed than expected by Nav A total of 85,000 people are now registered as fully unemployed or employed due to measures by Nav. This…