English information

You are defined as frontier worker if you have returned to your country of residence (another EEA country) at least once a week.

If you have become wholly unemployed from your work in Norway, you must apply for unemployment benefits (dagpenger) in the other EEA country where you resided during your last employment.

You are not defined as frontier worker if you have worked in Norway and returned to your country of residence (another EEA country) less often than once a week.

If you have become wholly unemployed from your work in Norway, you can choose to apply for unemployment benefits in Norway, or choose to return to your country of residence and apply for unemployment benefits in that country.

• If you choose to remain in Norway, you can apply for unemployment benefits in Norway.
• If you choose to return to your country of residence, you can apply for unemployment benefits in that country.

You can apply for:

1. Wage guarantee funds
   
   The wage guarantee scheme ensures that you as an employee are paid wages, holiday pay, and other employee pay you are due, when your employer goes bankrupt. The application to the wage guarantee scheme must be submitted by way of the estate administrator. Here you can read more about our processing times for the wage guarantee scheme (in Norwegian).
2. Advance on wage guarantee funds in the form of unemployment benefit
   
   While you are waiting for your application for the wage guarantee funds to be processed, you can apply for an advance on the wage guarantee funds. The advance is paid out in the form of unemployment benefits, and you apply for this advance by submitting an application for unemployment benefits.
3. Unemployment benefits
   
   When you submit an application for unemployment benefits, you can choose to apply for an advance on the wage guarantee funds in the form of unemployment benefits, and at the same time apply for unemployment benefits for the period following the end of your wage guarantee funds.

You are defined as a frontier worker if you have returned to your country of residence (another EEA country) at least once a week.

If you have become temporarily laid off (permittert) or partially unemployed from your work in Norway, you can receive unemployment benefits from Norway and stay in your country of residence.

You have worked in Norway and returned to your country of residence (another EEA country) less than once a week.

If you have become temporarily laid off (permittert) or partially unemployed from your work in Norway, you can receive unemployment benefits from Norway.

The main rule is that you must stay in Norway to qualify for unemployment benefits from Norway.

Exception from the requirement to stay in Norway applies if you are a non-frontier worker.

It is possible to apply for unemployment benefits even if you do not have electronic ID.

You can order Buypass from abroad With Buypass it is possible to sign in to our digital services.

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You may be entitled to retain unemployment benefits from Norway for up to 3 months when traveling to another EEA country to apply for a job. You must submit a separate application to NAV before traveling.

Read more about work in another EEA country (Norwegian information).

Maybe the norwegian information can be of some help.

Arbeidsledig (Unemployed)

Permittert (Laid-off)

For deg som har søkt dagpenger (You have applied for unemployment benefits)

Student (Student)

Unemployed - what now?

Employment status form - how do you use it?

Trenger hjelp til å komme i jobb (Need help to get back to work)

NAV telephone helplines

Addresses to Labour Market Authorities in the EEA member states.pdf

Benefits during unemployment in EEA member states