As a jobseeker, you have a duty to keep NAV informed about your situation. Among other things, this means that you must send in your employment status form every 14 days.
You must notify NAV Local Services immediately
Guidance for completion will be found as an integral part of our internet service or on the reverse of the status form (paper version). If wrongly or insufficiently completed, the form may be returned and payment delayed. If you submit the form too late, payment may be reduced or cancelled. After a week, your NAV registration may be deleted and future payments cancelled. You must get in touch with NAV Local Services if you want to reinstate the benefit that was terminated for reasons of late submission.
If you have worked for others or in self-employment during the period for which the employment status form applies, you must state all hours worked per day, worked during time off, Saturdays and Sundays, including work during evenings and at night.
As a general rule, you must always state the actual number of hours worked (in respect of unemployment benefit, both paid and unpaid work).
If you are paid for more hours than you actually work, for example piecework or similar, you must enter the hours for which you are paid.
If you carry out work for which you receive no income until some later date, the hours worked must nevertheless be entered for the period in which the work was performed. For example, this may be:
If you receive both benefit and pay for your labour market measure, you must get in touch with NAV Local Services for information about completing the employment status form.
If you engage in a labour market measure, a course or are in education (also applies if you are studying on your own account or are undergoing work experience), you must state the days you were there or should have attended. This is so that NAV will know which your labour market measure days are. If you have time off from those activities for reasons of public holidays or holidays, you must nevertheless, mark these days off.
You must state the days when you are sufficiently ill to render you unavailable for a labour market measure or a study, work or a job interview.
If you are away from the measure because you are sick, you must notify the person responsible for the measure in which you are participating, and mark this off on your employment status form.
You must state the days you are unavailable for reasons other than illness, for example if you have been away on holiday etc.
If you are away from a measure for reasons other than illness, you must notify the person responsible for the measure in which you are participating, and mark this off on your employment status form.
Absence will normally mean deduction from payments. If absence is due to pressing welfare reasons, NAV may assess whether you should receive benefit in any case. Get in touch with NAV on the first day of absence if you are in any doubt. Examples of pressing welfare reasons are:
Rules of absence differ depending on what benefits you receive.
If you still want service and the services provided by NAV, you must answer ’yes’ to the question of whether you still want to be registered as a jobseeker for the next 14-day period. This also applies if you are in rehabilitation and engaged in a measure, irrespective of whether you receive money from NAV or not. If you answer ’no’, you will cease to be registered with NAV and payments may cease.
