Benefits
Employment scheme benefits
Benefits you are entitled too while participating in one of NAV's employment schemes.
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You may be entitled to employment scheme benefits if you are participating in a labour market scheme and you are over 18 years old.
You are not entitled to employment scheme benefits if you are participating in the qualification programme, are receiving any other monetary support from NAV or receive a salary as an employee in the employment scheme. Working alongside the scheme, for example on weekends or public holidays, does not affect your employment scheme benefits.
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In addition to employment scheme benefits, you may qualify for a child supplement and support to cover daily travel expenses.
Child supplement
If you are the provider for a child under the age of 16, you may qualify for a child supplement. If the child is not registered in the National Population Register, you must document your responsibility as a provider with a birth certificate or certificate of residence for the child. This also applies to newborn infants. You can request a certificate of residence from the Tax Administration.
Travel expenses
You can request that NAV cover your daily travel expenses to participate in the scheme, as well as travel in connection with workshops, etc. You must apply for travel expense coverage separately, see information about supplemental benefits:
Supplemental benefit
Benefits
The rate for employment scheme benefits is NOK 285 per day. The child supplement is NOK 53 per day.
You will receive employment scheme benefits for the days you participate in your scheme.
You will also receive employment scheme benefits for holidays in connection with Christmas, New Year’s, Easter, Whitsun, 1 May, 17 May and Ascension Day, whenever these days fall on days that you would ordinarily receive employment scheme benefits for.
You can apply for the employment scheme benefits digitally.
You can also send an application by post. It may take longer to process paper applications.
If you are applying for a child supplement, and your child is not registered in the Population Register, you must include a birth certificate or a certificate of residence for any child under the age of 16. Most children will be registered in the Population Register.
If you are applying for supplemental benefits, such as support for school tuition and fees, examination fees, etc., you must document your expenses.
You will receive a written decision when the application has been processed.
Processing time for applications
The processing time is the time from when we receive your application until we have made a decision. Remember that we need all the necessary documentation to process your application.
Case concerns | Expected case processing time |
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Application | 4 weeks |
Have you received a decision from us that you think is wrong? You can complain to the NAV Unit that issued the decision. They will reassess your case. If they do not agree with your complaint, they will forward it to the NAV Appeals Management Unit.
Complain about a decision
The decision will have information about how to proceed if you want to complain, where to send your complaint and the term of complaint. If you have questions about the decision, you can contact us.
Processing time for complaints
Have you received a decision from us that you think is wrong? You can complain to the NAV Unit that issued the decision. They will reassess your case. If they do not agree with your complaint, they will forward it to the NAV Appeals Management Unit.
Case concerns | Expected case processing time |
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Complaint to the NAV unit | 26 weeks |
Complaint to the NAV Appeals Management Unit | 4 months |
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You will lose your enrolment in the scheme if you
- fail to attend the first day and do not notify anyone of your absence
- start your participation in a scheme, but you are absent so often NAV no longer deems it productive for you to complete the scheme
If you lose your enrolment in the scheme, you also lose your right to employment scheme benefits.
You must submit an employment status form every 14 days.
Fill in employment status form – employment scheme benefits
How to
Employment scheme benefits are calculated based on the information you have provided to NAV on your work registration card.
Payments are made approx. 2–3 days after registration of the employment status form.
In your overview of payments, you can see the payment in the evening on the day the money is paid out.
Holiday pay
There is no holiday pay on this benefit.
Tax
No tax is deducted from the money.
Employment scheme benefits do not count toward your pension.
If you participate in a labour market scheme and have a temporary interruption due to a summer holiday shutdown with the scheme organizer, you can be paid employment scheme benefits.
A summer holiday shutdown must be documented and apply to the entire company. Send documentation to NAV about summer holiday shutdown:
Training measures
If you participate in training measures, you generally cannot be paid employment scheme benefits during holidays. This applies even if you are a genuine job seeker during an imposed holiday that you have not chosen yourself, for example because the course location or school is closed during the summer holidays.
If you cannot work for health reasons or you are not entitled to holiday pay, you can receive employment scheme benefits during the summer holidays if the training measure lasts longer than one school year. You must send us documentation if you cannot work for health reasons:
If your income or family and/or work situation changes, and/or you are planning a stay abroad, this may significantly affect monetary support paid by NAV. That is why you must report any changes to NAV immediately.
Updated 06/14/2024
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