If you are paid per hour, fill in every hour you worked.

If you do not work exact full or half hours, round to the nearest half hour. If you have worked one quarter of an hour, round down, not up.

If you have a fixed salary, you must calculate hours based on the percentage you work compared to a full-time position.

A full-time position is 37.5 hours per week, even though ordinary full time working hours in your occupation may be different. This means that if you work in a 20 percent position, you must fill in 7.5 work hours on your employment status form per week.

To ensure correct payment, you should distribute your work hours as evenly as possible across the weekdays (Monday to Friday) in your 14-day period, regardless of when you actually did the work. This is because if your AAP stops during the 14-day period, you might exceed the limit for how many hours you can work and still keep your AAP.

Example:

You work in a 20 percent position and must fill in 7.5 work hours per week. The form covers the period 15–29 May 2023. On 16 May, you start working 100 percent, and Nav tells you that your AAP is will stop from this date.

If you fill in 7.5 hours on your employment status form for Monday 15th May, this is too many hours’ work on the one day you can get AAP for this form period, and you will not be paid AAP for this day. But if you spread your hours evenly, with 1.5 hours per weekday, your payment for Monday 15th will be correct.

You have both a fixed salary and an hourly wage

If you work extra hours on top of your fixed percentage position, and get paid per hour for the extra work, you must include these hours when you fill in your employment status form.

Example:

You work a 40 percent position in a shop, and work some extra shifts where you get paid per hour. In this case, you must fill in 15 hours per week for your 40 percent position, plus all the extra hours you worked at hourly rate.

If you work shifts or a rota, you must fill in work hours based on your average work hours per week in the rota period.

To get your average work hours, divide the total number of work hours in the rota period by the number of weeks in the rota period.

To ensure correct payment, you should distribute the hours as evenly as possible across the weekdays in the 14-day period, regardless of when you actually worked.

If you work extra in addition to the rota, enter these hours on the employment status form the week you work extra.

If you work shifts in a percentage position with a fixed salary, you must fill in work hours based on your percentage position.

If you are self-employed, work in your own business, do hobby-like work, or other, similar work, you must fill in all hours you work on your employment status form.

You must fill inn work hours even if

• you work for free and do not collect any payment
• you work during weekends or after ordinary working hours
• your business is not making a profit or is operating at a loss

How you withdraw money from your business, or how you classify the transfer of assets for tax or other purposes, does not matter.

Remember that you must fill in all work you have done, also administrative work. “Administrative work” means any work related to running your business, such as correspondence, invoicing and personnel work.

AAP while you establish your own business

If you have a decision from Nav that you can get AAP while you establish your own business, you shall not fill in the hours you work on the employment status form.

Even if you have been ill and absent from work, you must fill in the hours as work hours if you get

• sickness benefit from Nav
• pay from your employer while you are on sick leave or use self-certification days

Self-certification days are when you tell your employer that you are sick, but do not need a doctor’s note.

If you do not know how many work hours your sickness benefit covers, speak to your employer or contact us.

Has your child been ill?

If you get paid when you are absent from work because your child is ill, you must fill in these hours as work hours on the employment status form.

If you work and have been temporarily laid off, either entirely or partly, you must fill in regular work hours while you still get paid by your employer during the mandatory payment period. Once the mandatory payment period is over, you must only fill in the hours you actually work.

Even if you are absent from work while you are temporarily laid off, you shall not list the absence under question 4.

If you are on strike, you must fill in your employment status form the same as if you worked regular hours. You must do this whether or not your trade union pays you strike pay.

If you get carer’s allowance, you must fill in the hours you get paid for on the employment status form. You must fill in these hours in the period you actually did the work, even if your carer’s allowance is not paid until later.

If you have an agreement with your municipality for a specific number of hours per month, you fill in these hours on your employment status form.

If you have an agreement for a percentage position, you must fill in the equivalent number of hours. A 100 percent position is 37.5 hours per week. If you get carer’s allowance for a 20 percent position, you fill in 7.5 hours per week.

If you get a fixed sum or have another arrangement that does not specify a number of hours, you must calculate the number of hours your payment equates to. To get the number of hours, you divide your carer’s allowance by the hourly rate of the highest paid kindergarten assistant in your municipality. If you do not know what this hourly rate is, you must contact your municipality.

Example of calculation

If you get NOK 6,000 in carer’s allowance for a period of 14 days, and the highest hourly rate for kindergarten assistants is NOK 200, you must list 30 hours of work for the 14-day period: NOK 6,000 divided by NOK 200 = 30.

If you work and get AAP, and you get sickness benefit or sick pay from your employer while you are sick, you must answer “no” to question 3, and fill in the hours as work hours under question 1.

Answer “no” if you have been absent because your child was ill. This should normally be listed as “other absence” under question 4.

If you get paid by your employer when you are absent from work because your child is ill, you must fill in the hours as work hours under question 1.

If you are absent for welfare reasons, Nav may decide not to reduce your AAP payment. Welfare reasons include

• a sick child, including situations where your child carer is ill
• illness in your immediate family
• healthcare appointments with your doctor, dentist, or similar, when this is not part of an activity you have agreed with us
• death of an immediate family member or close friend
• funeral or memorial service
• your child’s first day of school, introduction to kindergarten, or other child follow-up activities

Please contact us as soon as possible when you will be absent. Until we approve your absences, you must list the days as absences on your employment status form.

However, if you are paid by your employer during your absence, you must list the hours as work hours under question 1.

Specific rules apply for AAP when you stay outside Norway. Before you travel, check which rules apply to the country you are travelling to, and find out if you need Nav’s approval before you go Absence, holidays and periods abroad.

You must list your stay abroad as holiday or other absence on your employment status form if you do not participate in agreed activities, and you are not available to Nav during your stay. In that case, your stay will be considered a holiday. The same rules apply regardless of whether you are at home, somewhere else in Norway, within the EEA or outside the EEA.

If Nav has not approved your stay in a country where approval is required, you must also list your stay abroad as holiday or other absence. If your stay was approved, but you stay longer than agreed, you must list the days Nav has not approved as absences.

Even though you are absent from work while you are temporarily laid off, you shall not list this absence on your employment status form.

You shall not list holiday from work as absences on your employment status form, if you are available and participate in the activities you have agreed with us. We will not reduce your AAP payments when you take holiday from work.

If you take time off in lieu, which means that you get time off with pay instead of overtime payment from your employer when you work extra hours, you must list these hours as work hours under question 1.

Holiday pay you have accumulated the right to through work, shall not be listed on your employment status form. Holiday pay will not lead to a reduction in your AAP.