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…
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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…
Employers penalise people who’ve done work training via Nav
Employers would rather employ people who’ve been unemployed than people who have had work training via Nav, states a Nova report. ’In many ways,…
NAV leaders risk action for inappropriate searches on staff colleagues
NAV in Aust-Agder has revealed that four current, and former executives, have delved into sensitive personal information about colleagues at the agency. This was confirmed…
The unemployment rates continue to drop
The unemployment rates in Norway continue to drop The number of people registered as fully unemployed decreased by 1,700 in November, according to seasonally adjusted…
More poor children in Norway
Many children often find that the money of mum or dad is often not enough. The reason is more immigrants and a financial downturn, according…
Three arrested for threats to the Nav office in Steinkjer
Armed police arrested two men Monday morning who threatened to blow up the Nav Office in Steinkjer. In addition, a woman who accompanied the two,…
Nav pays unemployment benefits without checking whether recipients meet the requirements
The Office of the Auditor General has reacted to the NAV offices they have spoken with not checking whether unemployment benefit recipients meet the requirements…