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A letter from NAV can be hard to understand, and a refusal can feel like a wall. Here you'll find explanations for common situations, and how to move forward. All 32 NAV guides are translated into English.
Your case with NAV
Illness, care and work capacity
Sick pay
Replaces your income when you cannot work due to illness or injury.
Work Assessment Allowance (AAP)
Income while you receive treatment or help from NAV.
Disability benefit
Income when your ability to earn is permanently reduced.
Care benefit for a sick child
Income when you must care for a seriously ill child.
Care allowance (home with a sick child)
A number of care days per year for ordinary child illness.
Training allowance
Income when you must learn to care for a child with a disability.
Care benefit at the end of life, or for a person over 18 with a developmental disability
Two situations outside care benefit for a sick child.
Occupational injury and occupational illness
How to report it, and what you may be entitled to.
Unemployed or laid off
Unemployment benefit
Financial support when you lose your job or are laid off.
Work-related measures from NAV
Work training, mentoring and other measures.
Dismissal and your rights at work
Objective grounds, notice periods and short deadlines.
Additional allowances for work-related measures
Coverage of extra expenses like childcare and travel.
Family and children
Child benefit and extended child benefit
Who can get what, and how to apply.
Parental benefit
Replaces your income when home with a child after birth or adoption.
Cash-for-care benefit
For parents with young children without a full kindergarten place.
Transitional benefit for single mothers or fathers
Income security when you have sole care of a child.
Childcare benefit for single mothers or fathers
Coverage of kindergarten, after-school care or a childminder.
Child maintenance and advance maintenance payments
How maintenance is set, and what to do if it is not paid.
Reduced ability to function
Basic benefit
Covers extra expenses due to a permanent illness or disability.
Attendance benefit and increased attendance benefit
Support for long-term private nursing and supervision.
Assistive technology from NAV
Borrow equipment from the Assistive Technology Centre.
Car benefit
Three schemes for people with a permanent disability who need a car.
Age and end of life
Funeral grant
Support if you have covered the costs of a funeral.
Benefits for survivors
Children's pension and adjustment allowance after a death.
Retirement pension from NAV
How accrual and life expectancy adjustment work.
Supplementary benefit for short residence in Norway
A minimum income if you have little or no retirement pension.