The authorities will reassess gluten subsidy
The authorities will reassess gluten intolerance subsidy The Norwegian authorities will review the financial support for people with celiac disease and reassess the subsidy for…
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Nav boss believes welfare state is threatened
Nav Director, Sigrun Vågeng, is concerned and believes that the welfare state is threatened. “It’s up to politicians and not Nav, where it has…
Nav investigates increase among immigrant “reduced working capacity’’ workforce
The number of employed immigrants registered with”reduced working capacity’’ at Nav has increased by 10,000 since 2010. NP evaluated the measurement. “Many in this…
Couple asked Nav for housing assistance – got a tent
Stine Kristiansen and Henrik Vridve from Drammen went to Nav to get a roof over their heads when they became homeless. Nav gave them a…
Nav forecasts lower unemployment
Nav expects the fall in unemployment to continue throughout the year,and through next year, but at a calmer rate than during the recently past period…
Almost one in ten in Norway receive disability benefit, with Nav saying increase will continue
At the turn of the year there were 325,900 recipients of disability insurance in this country.This is an increase of 7,600 people or 2.4% since…
Looking for a job in Norway?
NAV is part of EURES, a European jobs network designed to facilitate the free movement of workers within 32 EU/EEA countries and Switzerland Information…
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…