Accumulation of pension rights for care work for children

You can apply for the accumulation of pension rights if you have or have had daily care for young children. The same applies if you care for sick, disabled or elderly people.

Accumulation of pension rights for care work for sick, disabled or elderly people

You can apply for the accumulation of pension rights if you have or have had daily care for young children. The same applies if you care for sick, disabled or elderly people.

Activity aids for people over 26 years of age

To be able to be physically active.

Adaptation course – impaired vision and hearing

Provides tools and knowledge for the visually or hearing impaired.

Adjustment allowance

Secures income for a period if you lose your spouse, partner or cohabitant with common children.

Advance payments of child support

Ensures payment of child support.

Affordable assistive technology grant

Provides financial support when you need affordable aids that you cannot borrow from the Assistive Technology Centre.

Alert aids

Reminders and notification to relatives or other trusted persons. For example, a stove guard, timers and epilepsy alert.

Allowance for transportation of the deceased

Covers expenses when the deceased’s body has to be transported over a certain distance.

Allowance to cover tuition and fees for former family caregivers

Financial support for tuition fees, semester fees and exam fees when you take your education.

Allowance to cover tuition and fees for survivors

Covers expenses for tuition fees, semester fees and exam fees when you study and are alone with children.

App and software grants

Provides financial support for apps and software specifically designed for various disabilities.

Arm and leg prostheses

Replaces a missing body part.

Assessment

This offer is available to those who unsure of what kind of job they are capable of, e.g. because your health has deteriorated or you have not worked for a long time.

Assistance allowance

Financial support for children or adults who need long-term, private care and supervision.

Assistive technology for audio and speech

Reading machines, talking household items and talking clocks are examples of devices that can be of great help to people with visual impairment.

Assistive technology for mobility and orientation

For those who are blind or have severely impaired vision, and have difficulty moving about or orienting themselves.

Assistive technology in the bathroom

Fixed equipment in bathrooms that helps those who have difficulties with movement and movement become more independent.

Assistive technology in the workplace

Assistive technology that remedies functional obstacles and is necessary for you to get your work done.

Attendance allowance for developmentally disabled person over 18

Secures you income during absence from work when you have to care for a developmental disabled person over the age of 18 who is very seriously ill.

Attendance allowance for sick children

Ensures you income during absence from work when you need to care for a child who has been admitted or is undergoing treatment in hospital.

Attendance allowance in the final phase of life

Ensures you income during absence from work when you have to take care of a person who is at the end of life.

Audio induction loop

Amplifies sound so you can hear or perceive speech, for the hearing impaired.

Bank account number - how to change

Make sure the correct account number is registered when you apply for financial support from Nav. You can see and change your account number by logging in to nav.no.

Basic benefit

Financial support for additional expenses when you or your child has a permanent injury, illness or disability.

Basic pattern and stitching of clothing

Used as a basis for tailoring clothes.

Beds, mattresses, accessories and transfer aids

Beds, mattresses, adjustable back supports, bedside tables and aids for transferring and turning in bed.

Benefit for former family caregivers

The benefit ensures you an income if you cannot support yourself after caring for your parents or other people who have been close to you.

Bicycle

Provides better mobility and greater opportunities in everyday life.

Braille assistive technology

For those who are blind or have severely impaired vision, and who can or should learn braille.

Breast prosthesis

Mimics a breast in shape and size, and is available in many different versions.

Calendars and planning systems

Calendars and planning systems, for those who need support with structure, predictability and overview.

Car benefit

Provides financial support for car, car customization and special equipment for car.

Care benefit (home with a child who is ill)

Ensures your income when you need to stay home from work due to your child's or caregiver's illness.

Carts and carriers

Special carts for people who cannot use a wheelchair or who need a carrier or trolley for relief.

Cash-for-care benefit

Cash-for-care benefit can be granted if you have children between the ages of 13 and 19 months, who do not attend kindergarten full time.

Chairs and tables

Work chairs and other specially developed chairs and tables.

Chair with raising function

Chairs that help you stand up safely.

Child benefit

Financial support when you have children under age 18.

Child care benefit for single parents

Covers part of the cost for kindergarten, after-school program (SFO) or daycare when you have sole care of a child and are working.

Child care benefits for surviving spouse

Covers part of your childcare expenses when you are a surviving spouse who is working and alone caring for your child.

Children’s pension

Financial support if you are under 20 years old and have lost one or both of your parents.

Child support

Child support when the parents do not live together.

Chronically ill or pregnant worker

Coverage of sickness benefit during the employer-financed sick leave period when you have frequent sick leave due to chronic illness or pregnancy.

Communication aids – digital, advanced

Advanced computers or tablets with alternative communication and synthetic speech.

Communication aids – digital, simple

Aid with alternative communication that allows for simple and short expressions and command-oriented messages that can provide support in play and interaction.

Concessionary card (honnørkort)

Gives a reduced ticket price on public transport.

Consent from guardians

If you are under 18 and want follow-up and guidance from Nav, you must have the consent of your guardians.

Contractual pension (AFP) for members of the State Pension Fund

An early retirement scheme for employees in the public sector who are between the ages of 62-67 and were born before 1963.

Contractual pension (AFP) from the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund – Information form

Help to fill in a form with information for Nav when you apply for contractual pension (AFP) from the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.

Contractual pension (AFP) in the privte sector

A pension scheme for employees of private companies with a collective agreement where AFP is part of the agreement.

Conversation - aids

Makes it easier to participate in conversations when you have impaired hearing.

Declare paternity

About declaring paternity digitally

Disability benefit

Ensures an income if your earning capacity is reduced due to illness or injury.

Driving Log

If Nav has approved the use of a private car for activities related to work or education, you can submit a Driving Log for a refund on your driving expenses.

Education and training

This offer is available when you need qualification to be able to get a job.

Employment history in the Aa register

Shows what has been reported about your employment history.

Employment preparation training (AFT)

An offer of work in an adapted working environment before starting vocational training in a regular company.

Employment scheme benefits

Benefits you are entitled too while participating in one of Nav's employment schemes.

Employment status form

To be registered as a job seeker or to receive some benefits, you must submit an employment status form every 14 days.

Employment support scheme

This scheme is offered to those who need extra help finding or keeping a job.

Evaluation of start-up plans

If you receive unemployment benefit or work assessment allowance and wish to keep the financial support while setting up your own business, you must get an evaluation of start-up plans.

Expert assistant subsidy

Subsidy when you and your employer need help from an expert regarding sick leave and the work environment.

Extended child benefit

A supplement to ordinary child benefits when you live alone with children under the age of 18.

Eye guidance systems

Tracks the movements of the eyes and enables people with motor difficulties to operate computer equipment.

Eye prosthesis

Replaces your eye when you are missing an eye, or have injured your eye.

Facial prosthesis

Replicates the part of the face that is missing or injured.

Financial advice and debt counselling

If you are having problems with debt or if you are struggling to cover your expenses, you should seek help as soon as possible. Nav can give you advice on your personal finances. The service is free.

Financial assistance

A temporary assistance when you are unable to financially support yourself.

Folk high school grant

Covers extra expenses when you attend an organized field of training in daily activities.

Follow up

Measures when you need comprehensive support to find or keep a job.

Fostering contribution

A contribution that the municipality can demand from you when the Child Welfare Services takes over the care of your child.

Functional assistance in the workplace

Assists you with practical tasks when necessary for you to perform your job.

Funeral grant

Covers incurred, necessary funeral expenses.

Glasses and contact lenses for vision impairment

Provides support for eyeglasses or contact lenses when you have an eye condition, disease or disorder.

Glasses for children

One of several schemes that provide financial support to children and young people under the age of 18 who need glasses.

Glasses for prevention or treatment of amblyopia

May treat or prevent visual impairment amblyopia in children.

Grants for the purchase of a PC or tablet in case of reading and writing difficulties

Provides financial support for children with specific reading and writing difficulties such as dyslexia.

Green work

Farm work offer for those dealing with mental health or substance abuse challenges, providing assistance in job placement.

Guide dog

Helps you navigate indoors and outdoors when you are blind or severely visually impaired.

Hearing aid

Amplifies the sound around you when you have hearing impairment.

Hearing aid accessories

Allows you to wear hearing aids in multiple situations and other contexts.

Hearing alert equipment

Helps you perceive alerts from e.g smoke detectors, doorbells, crying children or telephones.

Heating element aids

Mittens, gloves, socks and soles with heating elements.

Height-adjustable kitchen trail

Motors to adjust the height of the kitchen counter, cupboards and shelves, so you can be independent in the kitchen.

Higher rate assistance allowance

Financial support for children under the age of 18 when the need for care and supervision significantly exceeds those covered by the standard assistance allowance.

Home automation and controls

Environmental controls. Remote control of home environments.

Inclusive subsidy

This subsidy is designed to assist your employer in adapting the workspace within your work labor market program.

Individual job support (IPS)

This offer is open to individuals facing mental health challenges or substance abuse issues, providing support for those seeking assistance in securing or maintaining employment.

Individual job support (IPS Youth)

This offer is available when you need help to get started with work or school and have challenges with mental health or substance abuse.

Information, advice and guidance

Guidance from Nav when you have challenges related to your situation at home, your living situation, caring for children, work or finances.

Insurance – sickness benefit

Insurance to get better coverage when you are on sick leave.

Interpretation for deaf, deafblind and individuals with impaired hearing

The Norwegian Interpretation Service (Tolketjenesten) performs interpretation assignments for the deaf, deafblind and for people with impaired hearing.

Interpreter for different spoken languages

You may be entitled to a language interpreter or an interpreter for the deaf, hearing impaired and deafblind when you have a conversation with Nav.

Interpreting services for the deaf, deafblind, and individuals with impaired hearing - booking

Before booking an interpreter for deaf, deafblind, and impaired hearing individuals, you must apply for and be granted approval for an interpreter.

Iris lens

Covering a deformed iris using a specially made contact lens.

Job club

Help to be an active job seeker when you are registered as a job seeker with Nav.

Job coping centre

This offer is available when you have anxiety or depression and need help to find a job or stay in work.

Job coping follow-up

Coverage of sickness benefit during the employer-financed sick leave period when you have frequent sick leave due to chronic illness or pregnancy.

Job seeker course (digital)

An offer when you are looking for work or when you are laid off.

Jobseeker – register

Register as a jobseeker if your goal is to find work and you want to do activities, alone or together with Nav, to achieve this.

Kvalifiseringsprogrammet (KVP)

A full-time program for you between the ages of 18 and 67 who need extra follow-up to be able to get into work.

Life certificate for pension and disability benefit recipients abroad

Nav may require that you submit a life certificate when you are living abroad and receive pension or disability benefit payments.

Lifting platforms

Lift platforms help wheelchair users move between different levels in a building.

Lifts and transfer platforms

A lift allows you to lift a person safely from a bed to chair, or from sitting to upright etc. A transfer platform provides support for similar movement.

Lump sum grant

A lump sum instead of parental benefit when you are expecting a child and have not had income for at least 6 of the last 10 months before parental benefit leave.

Magnifying aids

If you have a visual impairment, different situations and needs can be facilitated with different enlargement aids.

Membership in the national insurance during stay in the EEA or Switzerland

If you are going to work or stay in the EEA or Switzerland, it may affect your membership in the national insurance.

Membership in the Norwegian National Insurance Scheme while staying in a country outside EEA or Switzerland

If you intend to work or stay outside Norway, this may affect your membership in the Norwegian National Insurance Scheme.

Mentor

Practical help, guidance or training when you need help to master your job or education.

Miscellaneous documentation

When you have been instructed to send Nav documentation in connection with clarification of work capacity, residence permit or other.

National insurance contributions

If you are a member of or entitled to benefits under the Norwegian National Insurance Scheme, you are generally required to pay National insurance contributions.

Noise-reducing ear plugs

Protects against unpleasant or painful sound when you have reduced tolerance to sound.

Occupational injury or illness - report to Nav

Employers and others in similar positions have a duty to report the injury on your behalf when occupational accidents or harmful exposures occur at work. You can also send a report yourself.

Occupational rehabilitation

Offer of counselling sessions and individually adapted activities when you have health problems or social problems.

Ordering system (Bestillingsordningen)

Simplified case management in Nav to order simple assistive technology that do not require individual adaptations.

Orthopaedic shoes

Help is available when you have various problems with your feet.

Orthoses

Stabilises or improves function when you have a body part that is paralysed or weakened.

Parental benefit

Replaces your income when you stay at home with the child at birth or adoption.

Permanent impairment compensation in the event of an occupational injury or illness

Compensation when you have sustained a permanent physical or mental injury caused by an approved occupational injury or illness.

Permanent wage subsidy

A grant that will increase your chances of getting a regular job when you have permanent and significantly reduced work capacity.

Permanent work adsjustment

This offer is available to those who receive disability benefits when you work in a sheltered or ordinary company with adapted work tasks.

Positioning cushions

Specially adapted cushions for support and positioning in lying and sitting positions.

Power of attorney

For third parties to access any information that Nav might have concerning you, they must either have the statutory authority to order Nav to disclose it, or you must grant them a power of attorney.

Power of attorney to apply for assistive technology

You can authorize an assistive technology agent to apply for assistive technology on your behalf.

Pregnancy benefit

Replaces income when you are healthy but cannot continue to work during pregnancy because it may entail risks to the baby.

Printed communication aids

Symbol packages in different formats that enable communication and reduce language barriers.

Ramps

Ramps, threshold eliminators and inclined boards contribute to threshold-free access to dwellings, and between rooms with thresholds and level differences.

Reading and secretarial assistance

You can get help with reading and writing when you are blind or visually impaired.

Reading and writing support software

Software that supports reading and writing for those who have reading and writing difficulties. If you are under the age of 18, your parent or guardian must sign the application for you.

Rebuilding grant

Financial support for changes to a home instead of ramp and lift, to achieve a permanently adapted home.

Report possible benefit fraud

You can tip Nav about possible benefit fraud. You can choose to give tips anonymously or be open about your identity.

Request access to information and case documents

Nav has a duty of confidentiality. You can apply for access to information or case documents on behalf of someone else, as well as access to your own case.

Retirement pension

Retirement pension from the National Insurance Scheme (Nav) guarantees an income when you retire.

Right to complain

When you apply to Nav for financial support or a benefit, Nav will make a decision. If you believe the decision is incorrect, you may complain.

Seat cushions with pressure ulcer prevention properties

Cushions with extra padding that protect and should provide a good seat in the wheelchair.

Service dog

Helps you in everyday life when you have physical disabilities.

Sexual assistive technology

Helps provide a better sex life when you have impaired sexual function.

Sickness benefit

Compensates for your income when you are unable to work due to illness or injury.

Single mother or father who is a job seeker - submit information

Form jobseekers must fill in when you apply for transitional benefit for a single mother or father.

Software for creating printed communication materials

Software to create, edit and print communication boards, communication books (sound books), aided language boards and voice machine overlays, among others.

Sound equalisation system

Helps you catch what is being said when you are in rooms with lots of sound disturbances.

Special lighting

Additional lighting such as portable lights or bright work lamps specially designed for people with permanent visual impairment.

Spousal support

A contribution when your ability to support yourself is diminished because of marriage or caring for your children.

Stair lift and stair support systems

A lift with seat or platform that allows those with reduced walking ability to use a staircase.

Standing frame

A support stand to help you get into an upright position.

Studies with support (support to finish school)

This offer is available when you have mental health problems and need help to complete schooling or studies.

Summer job grants

A contribution for employers when you want work experience and need help finding a relevant employer.

Supplemental benefit

Support for childcare and expenses you have in connection with education or job search.

Supplemental benefit for former family caregivers

Support for expenses when you complete necessary and approved education to find or keep a job.

Supplemental benefit for single parents

Support for childcare and expenses you have for education or job hunting when you are alone with children.

Supplemental benefit for surviving spouse

Support for childcare and expenses you have in connection with education or job search.

Supplementary benefit for disabled refugees under the age of 67

If you are both disabled and have refugee status, you are guaranteed a total income equivalent to the minimum disability benefit.

Supplementary benefit for persons over 67 who have only lived a short period in Norway

Ensures you a minimum income if you have lived in Norway too short to get full retirement pension.

Support for extraordinary expenses

Payment from the other parent for their share of expenses for braces, confirmation, glasses, etc.

Support for school fees for single parents

Covers expenses related to tuition fees, semester fees and examination fees for single parents when you are studying and are alone with children.

Survivor’s pension

Ensures income if you lost your spouse, partner or cohabitant with whom you have joint children. You can no longer apply for survivor's pension, but you may be entitled to adjustment allowance.

Telephone listening devices

Amplifies the sound from your phone when you need to hear phone calls better.

Temporary (emergency) accommodation

Help from Nav to find temporary accommodation when you do not have a place to sleep and stay for the next 24 hours.

Time counters, timers, reminders and alarms

Time counters, timers, reminders and alarms, for those who need help understanding, visualising and remembering time.

Time-limited wage subsidies

Subsidy to your employer when you need to increase your chances of getting a job with regular pay.

Tinnitus masking device

Creates a countersound to suppress tinnitus (also called ringing in the ears) when it is quiet or when you want to sleep.

Training, stimulation and activation

Aids to improve or maintain motor or cognitive functioning.

Training allowance

Secures you income during absence from work when you are in training to be able to care for a child or an adult.

Transitional benefit for single parents

Ensures you income for up to 3 years when you have at least 60 per cent of the daily care for children under 8 years of age.

Transitional benefit for survivors

Secures income when the marriage has lasted less than 5 years and you have no children together, or if you have daily care for the deceased's children.

Travel allowance

If transportation to and from work enables you to work part or full time, you can get travel allowance instead of sickness benefit.

Travel cost for visiting arrangements

How to distribute travel costs for visiting arrangements.

Travel expenses

Covers your travel expenses when you try out, adapt or repair assistive technology.

TV and radio listening devices

Sends the sound from TV or radio to a desired receiver at your location.

Unemployment benefit (dagpenger)

Unemployment benefit (dagpenger) is a financial support you may get if you are unemployed or temporarily laid off.

Update your contact information

Nav sends post to your address in the Contact and Reservation Register or the Population Register.

Video interpreter

Provides interpretation by writing and sign language on screen for the hearing impaired.

Voice amplifiers

Can help those with a low voice or those who struggle to be heard in noisy environments.

Voluntary membership of the Norwegian National Insurance Scheme during stay in Norway

Most of those who live and work in Norway are members of the National Insurance Scheme, but there are exceptions. If you are not a member, you can apply for voluntary membership.

Voluntary occupational injury benefit

A voluntary insurance policy when you are self-employed or freelancer.

Voluntary tax deductions

A voluntary tax deduction means that more tax is deducted than what is shown on your tax card. It is also called extra tax deduction.

Wage guarantee

Ensures that you are paid wages, holiday pay and other payment for work you are due, when your employer is unable to pay.

Walking aids

Assistive devices such as walkers and walkers to support walking and walking training.

War pension

A compensation for reduced working capacity due to injuries resulting from the war of 1939-45.

Wheelchair or scooter

Manual and electric wheelchairs for those with reduced walking ability.

Wig

Replaces the hair on the entire head, or parts of the head.

Work and education travel grant

Provides support for taxis to and from work or school when you have a mobility impairment.

Work assessment allowance (AAP)

Ensures that you have an income during periods where, due to illness or injury, you need help from Nav.

Work training

This offer is available to people who need work experience to master a certain type of job or need a reference.