Number of unemployment benefit recipients in Norway increased fivefold last year compared to 2019
Three million Norwegians were paid a total of NOK 500 billion in benefits and pensions in 2020. The number of unemployment benefit recipients is five…
Unemployment benefits
Over half a million Norwegians received unemployment benefits since the pandemic started
Since March 12 last year, more than half a million unemployed and laid-off workers have received unemployment benefits or wage compensation in Norway, new figures…
Socialist Left’s proposal to increase unemployment benefits during the crisis rejected by Erna Solberg
Norway’s Socialist Left Party (SV) wanted the government to both increase unemployment benefits and raise the ceiling for housing benefits. But Prime Minister Erna Solberg…
Almost a record: 13,800 people in Norway applied for unemployment benefits last week
The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) received 13,800 new applications for unemployment benefits last week. There hasn’t been a single week with as many…
Norway wants to extend the increased unemployment benefit rate until July 1
Due to the corona situation, the Norweigan government is proposing to extend the increased unemployment benefit rate for the laid-off and unemployed until July 1….
Norway has increased the waiting time for unemployment benefits. Here are the details
This article outlines details provided by the Norwegian government regarding the change. The waiting time for unemployment benefits in Norway has increased. Certain non-employees will…
37,000 laid-off workers will not receive unemployment benefits until September
NAV confirms that 37,000 people will have to wait until September to receive the unemployment benefits they are entitled to. This is because the laid…
Unemployment benefits can be delayed until the end of July
Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Torbjørn Røe Isaksen (H) says Nav does not expect to be up to date with the payment of unemployment…
Nav has paid over one billion in advance unemployment benefits
Nav has paid about 1 billion kroner to those affected by the corona crisis, and who have applied for advance payments of unemployment benefits before…
Almost 12,000 new unemployment benefit applications to Nav on Monday
Nav received 11,900 unemployment benefits on Monday. 10,000 of these were due to being temporarily laid off. Since 12 March, 318,300 unemployment benefit applications have…
Fewer and fewer receive unemployment benefits
138,500 people received Work Assessment Allowances (AAP), at the end of the first quarter of 2018. This is a decrease from the 2,100 in the…
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…
It may now be possible to combine unemployment benefits and education
KrF (Christian People’s Party) secured Friday the majority of Parliament for changes in the unemployment benefit regulations. This decision opens the possibility to combine unemployment…
Combine unemployment benefits with education
From now on it is possible to combine unemployment benefits with education The Christian Democrats (KrF) on Friday secured a majority in the Parliament for…
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…
The Government changes the rules for unemployment benefits
The Government changes the rules for unemployment benefits The Government changes the rules so that one is now less likely to be penalized for part-time…
Unemployed engineers will soon be without unemployment benefits
The counties that have been hard hit by the oil crisis, are experiencing a sharp increase in the number of people who will soon not…
More people received more unemployment benefits
Preliminary figures from the tax assessment show that 177 000 persons received NOK 13.3 billion in unemployment benefits in 2015. This is an increase of NOK…
