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Parental benefit or lump-sum grant?

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV)
Use the guide to decide whether you should apply for parental benefit or a lump-sum grant. You can only apply for one of them. 

Claim for cash benefit for parents of young children

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV)
You can receive cash-for-care benefits for children between the ages of one and two years of age or for adopted children who have not started school. If your child attends a government subsidised day care centre full-time, you will not receive cash-for-care benefits. If your child attends a government subsidised day-care centre part-time, you can receive partial support.

Child benefit

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV)
You may be entitled to child benefit if you have a child under the age of 18 in your care, who is living with you in Norway. Single parents are also entitled to extended child benefit and infant supplement. You do not usually need to apply for child benefit. If the child is born in Norway, the mother will automatically receive child benefit around 2 months after the child is born.

Register as a jobseeker

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV)
Here you can register as a jobseeker with NAV. You might have rights to unemployment benefits (dagpenger) if you are temporarily laid off (permittert) or unemployed.

Measures to get to work - NAV

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV)
If you are at risk of dropping out of working life or want to get a job, NAV can consider several measures and instruments. (In Norwegian only)

Financial assistance - a guide

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV)
Financial assistance is a temporary form of income. The objective of this type of benefit is to help you manage on your own as soon as possible. Before you can qualify for financial assistance you must consider every other possibility for you to provide for yourself. This could include employment, other means of income or using your own savings. 

Apply for approval of education to get unemployment benefit

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV)
As a common rule, you can not get unemployment benefit if your are a student. But there is some exceptions. If you wish to keep your unemployment benefit while you are a student, you have to apply for it. Read more about unemployment benefit and education on Nav.no    

Sickness benefit (sykepenger) to self-employed persons and freelancers

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV)
You are entitled to sickness benefit (sykepenger) from the 17th day of absence. For the first 16 calendar days, you can receive sickness benefit if you have taken out insurance.

Sickness benefits for employees

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV)
Sickness benefits compensate for loss of income for those who are occupationally disabled due to an illness or injury.

Annual statement (årsoppgave) from NAV

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV)
If you have got payments from NAV in 2020, you will receive the annual statement between 8 and 21 January, and latest 1 February 2020. If you are a digital user, you will find your annual statement for 2019 in 'Dine saker' on Ditt NAV.

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