Work assessment allowance (Arbeidsavklaringspenger, AAP)

Oct 21, 2022

Work assessment allowance (Arbeidsavklaringspenger, AAP)

If you are ill long term, find out if you could work. In the meantime, apply for AAP (work assessment allowance) in Norway

AAP must ensure you an income during periods when, due to illness or injury

The aim is for you and NAV to clarify your options for keeping or getting work. You contribute to reaching that goal by, for example, trying out different treatments, different work situations or acquiring new skills.

As a general rule, your ability to work must be reduced by at least 50 percent. Your ability to work must be reduced for all types of work.

You must apply for AAP to know whether you are entitled to this. You can be paid work assessment allowance from and including the day you apply at the earliest.

It is not a requirement that you have received sickness benefit before you apply for AAP.

General rules – who can get work assessment allowance?

You may get AAP if all of these apply to you:

Your ability to work is impaired due to illness or injury. As a general rule, your ability to work must be reduced by at least 50 percent.
Your ability to work must be reduced for all types of work for which you are qualified.
You need treatment to improve your ability to work, or help from NAV to keep or obtain work.
As a general rule, you must have been a member of the National Insurance Scheme for at least 5 years.
You are between 18 and 67 years old.

If you are aged between 62 and 67 when you apply, you must, as a general rule, have had a pensionable income that corresponds to the basic amount in the national insurance (G), in the year before you became disabled. NAV can make exceptions.

You must have at least a 50 per cent reduced ability to work due to illness or injury

In order to receive work assessment allowance, your ability to work must, as a general rule, be reduced by at least 50 per cent due to illness or injury. The ability to work must be reduced for all types of work for which you are qualified. If the reduced ability to work is due to an approved occupational injury or occupational disease, it is sufficient that your ability to work is reduced by at least 30 per cent.

Work injury

By occupational injury, NAV mean that you have suffered an injury as a result of an accident at work. Nav can approve an illness as an occupational disease if it is caused by harmful influences from the working environment.

If NAV has approved an occupational injury or disease and NAV has assessed that it is wholly or partly the cause of your reduced ability to work this applies:

You can get AAP if your ability to work is reduced by at least 30 percent.

It need to be possible that your ability to work can improve

In order to receive work assessment allowance, it must be possible that your ability to work can improve so that you can keep or obtain work, through:

Treatment. This could be, for example, psychological treatment, physiotherapy or follow-up by the GP.

Work-oriented measures. This could be, for example, facilitation, training, job training or a job club.

Follow-up from NAV. This can, for example, be advice and guidance from NAV Hjelpemidelsentral or NAV

Arbeidsrådgivning, dialogue with your employer about accommodation options and opportunities to stay in your job.

For those who have previously received AAP

The waiting period of 52 weeks has been lifted from 1 February 2022. If you have not used up your maximum time on AAP, you can have your AAP period resumed. Then it is enough that your ability to work is reduced by at least 40 per cent. The earliest you can resume AAP is from the day you apply.

If you have not used up your maximum time on AAP, you can have your AAP period resumed. Then it is enough that your ability to work is reduced by at least 40 per cent. The earliest you can be granted AAP is from the day you apply.
If you have used up your maximum period on AAP, and NAV has assessed that you are not entitled to further AAP beyond the maximum period (exception), you can apply for a new period because the qualifying period has ended. You must have reduced working capacity by at least half, and you can be granted AAP from the day you apply at the earliest.
If you had your AAP terminated because you were cleared and back to work, and it has been less than 52 weeks, you can enter the previous case. Your ability to work must then be reduced by at least half. The earliest you can be granted AAP is from the day you apply. See the information below about the new right to sickness benefit.

To get a new right to sick pay, you must have worked in whole or in part for 26 weeks. If it has been less than 52 weeks since you last received AAP and you have fallen ill again, you may not be entitled to sick pay. If you are not entitled to sickness benefit, you can apply for AAP again. You can then receive AAP as compensation for sickness benefit for a limited period of up to 6 months. The aim is then that you become fit for work within the 6 months.

If you submit an application for AAP, NAV will assess whether you have the right to enter a previous case, re-admission, or whether you are entitled to a new period. You must apply to have your case assessed. Apply here: https://www.nav.no/skjemaer/soknad-om-arbeidsavklaringspenger-nav-11-13.05

You must be a member of the National Insurance Scheme

As a general rule, you must have been a member of the National Insurance Scheme for at least 5 consecutive years before you apply for work assessment allowance.

There are two exceptions to the general rule of 5 years of membership. These apply if you have been a member of the national insurance for at least 1 consecutive year before you apply for AAP.

Exception A:

You were a member of the National Insurance Scheme when you had your ability to work reduced,
and

you have been a member for longer, or as long, as you have not been a member of the national insurance after you turned 16.
Exception B:

Since you turned 16, you have had less than 5 years in total where you have not been a member of the National Insurance Scheme.
Addition of time
If you have been covered by social security legislation and accrued social security time in another country, this time can in some cases be counted as if it were social security time in the national insurance. This only applies if Norway has an agreement with the country on this. Norway has such an agreement with, among others, the EU/EEA countries.

It is not a requirement that you must have been a member of the National Insurance before you suffered the occupational injury or disease.

You can work and keep work assessment allowance at the same time

If you work, NAV will reduce your payment on AAP based on how much you work.
As a general rule, if you work more than 60 percent, you will not be paid AAP.

When you are close to starting a full-time job, you can work up to 80 percent, and still receive AAP for the remaining percent. This period can last up to 12 months. You can only use this opportunity once during the AAP period. This also applies to escalation periods that are shorter than 12 months. The ramp-up period must be part of your activity plan.

NAV can reduce AAP if we consider that you could have worked more than you actually do. If there are conditions in your work-related activity that make it difficult to carry out the activities and thus make use of your ability to work, you must still have full work clearance allowance.

How much can you get?

You can get 66 percent of your income up to 6G, which is equivalent to NOK 441,449.
AAP is determined on the basis of the pensionable income you had in the year before your ability to work was reduced by at least 50 per cent.
The calculation basis is the starting point for how much you can get in AAP. This is determined by your previous income, or minimum rate. We divide your calculation basis by 260 (number of working days in the year). This is your daily rate.

How much you get paid depends on

your daily rate
if you support children
how much you work
what you carry on your registration card
if you send the registration card by the deadline
whether you comply with the activity obligation
your tax deduction
AAP is taxed as earned income and is pensionable. Read more about tax deductions on payments from NAV.

This is how we arrive at your calculation basis
There are two ways to arrive at your calculation basis. We will always choose the method that gives you the highest calculation basis.

Our starting point is 66 percent of your income. Here we look at pensionable income before your ability to work was reduced by at least 50 per cent. For most people, this is the income in the last calendar year before you were registered sick. We use either the income you had in the last year before you were registered sick and your ability to work was reduced by at least 50 per cent, or

the average of your income in the last three years before you were registered as ill and your ability to work was reduced by at least 50 per cent.
Note that annual income above 6 times the average of the national insurance basic amount (6G) is not included in the calculation of work assessment allowance.

If you had little or no income before your ability to work was reduced by at least 50 per cent, you will still be able to receive a minimum annual benefit. We call this the minimum rate.

How much you get in the minimum rate depends on your age:

If you are 25 or older, the minimum rate is 2G (2 times the basic amount of the national insurance, per year).
If you are younger than 25, the minimum rate is 2/3 of 2G. From the day you turn 25, the performance will be upgraded to 2G.
If you have an income that gives you a lower calculation basis than the minimum rate, we increase the calculation basis to the minimum rate.

Occupational injury or occupational disease?

If it gives you a higher calculation basis, we use the income you had at the time of the claim.

For those who support children

If you support children under the age of 18, you receive a child allowance of NOK 27 per child, 5 days a week. This applies to both your own children and adopted children, as long as you are the one supporting them. You can also receive child allowance for foster children if you have provided for the foster child in the last two years. Child allowance can also be given for children for whom you have an obligation to contribute, even if you are not paying contributions at the moment.

If both parents receive AAP, both will be able to receive child allowance.

If you have a child, you must notify us in writing no later than 3 months after the birth in order to receive child allowance from the time of birth. If you cancel after 3 months have passed, you will receive child allowance for the new child from the day you cancel at the earliest.

To be entitled to child allowance, the child must be resident in Norway/the EEA area or Switzerland.

If your child stays outside Norway/EEA and Switzerland for more than 90 days in a twelve-month period, you are no longer entitled to child allowance.

You must report to NAV if the child is to stay outside Norway/EEA or Switzerland and

this should last for more than 90 days
upon exit, the child has already stayed outside Norway/EEA or Switzerland for 90 days during the last 12 months
during this stay abroad, the child will have stayed outside Norway/EEA or Switzerland for 90 days during the last 12 months
You must also notify us if you receive child allowance for children who live outside Norway/EEA. The same applies if you receive child allowance and the child settles outside Norway/EEA.

You lose your right to child benefit if you do not meet the requirements.

If you receive employment verification money and at the same time receive money from an employer when you have:

• been dismissed
• quit the job
• reduced your working hours,
then the work clarification money will be reduced by the same amount.

Work in the public sector and work assessment allowance

When you work in the public sector, you have a public occupational pension. Disability pension from public service pension is a financial support you can get in addition to AAP from NAV.

Remember that you must apply for a disability pension from the pension scheme you have via your employer. For example, the State Pension Fund (SPK) and KLP. It is not enough to simply apply for AAP from NAV. You will then receive two separate payments, one from the pension scheme you have via your employer and one from NAV.

This is how you apply

In order for us to assess whether you are entitled to AAP, you must apply for it. You can get AAP from the day you apply at the earliest.

APPLY FOR EMPLOYMENT CLEARANCE PAYMENT

If you log in to nav.no, you can see if we have received the application.

This happens after you have applied for AAP
NAV collects information and documentation when we process your application. You can resend documentation and attachments.

We recommend that you register your CV
In order for us to be able to process your application, we need to know what education and work experience you have. You should therefore register and update your CV on svårvågsten.no at the same time as you apply. This also applies to you who are going back to your employer.

If information and documentation are missing, we will ask you to resend this. We may ask you, your GP or others to submit information if this is relevant. If we have asked for the necessary documentation, but have not received it, you may risk having your application rejected. You will not be refused until you have been told that something is missing.

Along the way, you will be able to receive several letters and inquiries from NAV. You always get:

a work capacity assessment
a follow-up decision
a decision in which we grant or refuse work assessment allowance

If you have challenges that affect your job opportunities, your supervisor will assess your job opportunities with you. We call this a work capacity assessment. We assess your ability to work based on conversations with you, information you have given us and information in your CV. Read more about how a work capacity assessment is carried out.

We use the work capacity assessment as the basis for both the follow-up decision and the decision on AAP.

If you have comments on the work capacity assessment we have carried out, you can give us feedback, for example through the dialogue service in the activity plan.

A follow-up decision is an assessment from us about what help you need to get into or return to work. This decision is not about money.

The follow-up decision says something about

your opportunities and obstacles to gainful employment
your need for work-oriented activities
the goal of these activities
what we have to contribute
The follow-up decision contains one of these conclusions:

That you can get to work without help from us
That you can get to work with some help from us
That you can get to work with a lot of help from us
That your opportunities for gainful employment are small
Complaint possibilities
You can appeal the follow-up decision. The appeal deadline is 3 weeks from when you receive the decision. A written complaint is sent to NAV.

Read more about your complaint rights and what happens.

If you have applied for AAP, and we believe that you have reduced your ability to work by at least 50 per cent due to illness or injury, and the other conditions are met, you will receive a decision that AAP has been granted.

Complaint possibilities

You can appeal the AAP decision. The appeal deadline is 6 weeks from when you receive the decision. Note! When you complain, you must be clear about what you are complaining about. If you are not successful after we have processed the complaint, you can appeal the decision to the Social Security Court.

If you disagree with how we assess what help you need to get into or return to work, you must appeal the follow-up decision (see above).

Read more about your complaint rights and what happens.

You will receive a written decision when the application has been processed.

Case processing times
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.

The case concerns Expected processing time
Application 11 weeks
International application 11 weeks
Processing time for complaints and appeals
Have you received a decision from us that you believe is wrong? You can then complain to the NAV unit that wrote the decision. They will reassess your case. If they do not agree with your complaint, they forward it to the NAV Complaints Authority.

The case concerns Expected processing time
Complaint to NAV unit 20 weeks
Complaint to NAV Complaints Body 15 weeks
Appeal to NAV Appeals Body 15 weeks

How long can you get work assessment allowance?

Ordinary period with AAP

As a general rule, you can get AAP for up to 3 years.

How long you receive AAP depends on how long you have to be in work-related activity, or undergo medical treatment, before you can work. The length of the AAP will therefore vary from person to person.

There are separate rules for extension beyond the ordinary period. During the corona pandemic, some have had their ordinary AAP period extended.

Extension

When your AAP period comes to an end, we will consider whether you are entitled to an extension. You do not need to apply for an extension. We will enter into a dialogue with you about current activities further towards work.

You may be entitled to an extension if you are already in work and are close to being able to increase your ability to work, or are close to being able to obtain or return to work. You must be able to achieve a working capacity of more than 50 percent.

You can also get an extension to complete a training initiative you have started.

You can have the AAP extended by a maximum of 2 years. We cannot grant a new application for AAP as long as you are entitled to an extension.

New period

If you are not entitled to an extension after 3 years, you can apply for a new period with AAP. You may also be entitled to a new period after an extension.

A new period of AAP can be granted if you

still have a reduced ability to work by at least 50 per cent due to illness or injury and
need treatment, measures or other follow-up from us to return to work

You must submit an application for work clearance allowance.

Work assessment allowance in transitional periods

To be entitled to AAP, you must, as a general rule, carry out work-related activities in order to get work. But you may be entitled to AAP as a transitional benefit in certain periods.

You can get AAP while you are waiting for treatment or work-oriented measures.

When you gradually increase to full-time work, you can get AAP even when you work more than 60 percent. Read more about stepping up to a full-time job.

When you have completed measures or treatment, and you have been able to get a job, you can get AAP for up to 6 months while you look for work.

You must be registered with NAV as a job seeker.

Are you a student or pupil in upper secondary education and have to interrupt your studies for a period of up to 6 months due to illness or injury? Then you can get work assessment allowance even if your ability to work is not impaired to take up any work.

You can get work assessment allowance if

you have interrupted your studies completely
you need medical treatment to be able to resume your studies
the study or upper secondary education has been approved for support from Lånekassen
If you receive a loan/grant from Lånekassen, you are not entitled to AAP during the period in which you are entitled to a sickness grant.

You must apply to have your case assessed. Together with the application, you must deliver

documentation from the school/place of study confirming that the study has been interrupted
documentation about the right to student loans and sickness grants from Lånekassen.

Disability benefit may be applicable for you who have permanently reduced earning capacity due to illness or injury.

If you have applied for disability benefits in consultation with us, you can receive AAP for up to 8 months while we process your disability application.

If you get a temporary illness after you have received AAP or used up your sick pay rights, you may be entitled to AAP as a replacement for sick pay for up to 6 months.

Your ability to work must be reduced by at least 50 per cent, and illness or injury must be a significant contributing factor to the reduced ability to work. In addition, one of these must apply to you:

You have received AAP before, and within 6 months after the employment verification allowance has ceased, you become temporarily unable to work due to a new illness.
You have received AAP before, and within 1 year after the employment verification allowance has ceased, you become temporarily unable to work due to the same illness as last time.
You have received sickness benefit and become unable to work again while you are working or receiving unemployment benefit.
You have received sickness benefit and are still unable to work due to illness or injury.
You have received work assessment allowance and then parental benefit, and again become unable to work due to illness or injury within 6 months after parental benefit ceased.
You must have been fully able to work for 26 weeks to earn new sick pay rights.

You must apply for AAP to be assessed whether you are entitled to this. You can be paid AAP from and including the day you apply at the earliest.

You can apply to keep AAP for a limited period at the same time as you establish your own business. You can get AAP for up to 6 months while you are in a development phase and/or 3 months while you are in a start-up phase.

It is a requirement that the establishment is likely to lead to you being able to support yourself, possibly in combination with disability benefits. You can only apply if you intend to start a new business.

Duty to be active to get work assessment allowance

To get AAP, you must contribute to clarify whether you can enter or return to work. This is called an activity obligation.

The activity obligation implies that

you help draw up a concrete activity plan for what you have to do to get into or return to work.
you attend agreed meetings with NAV.
you supply the necessary information and documentation that we need to help you.
you carry out the activities that you and NAV have agreed in your activity plan.
You must notify NAV if something prevents you from carrying out the activity plan as agreed.

You can have your AAP reduced or stopped

If you do not comply with the activity obligation, and there is no reasonable reason for this, we can stop or reduce your work verification allowance.

You can get benefits in AAP if you, for example:

does not come to the meeting that we have called for.
does not attend on a specific agreed day for measures, investigations or treatment.
do not submit documentation and/or information that we have requested within the deadline.
If you have questions about payments and financial support from NAV, you cannot use the dialogue service in the activity plan for this.

Complaint possibilities
You can appeal against a decision to withdraw or suspend the AAP as a result of a breach of the activity obligation.

Aktivitetsplan og dialog med veilederen din

At nav.no you will find the activity plan that you and your supervisor have created together. You use your activity plan to have a dialogue with your supervisor, report changes in your situation and enter activities that can improve your ability to work. Here you can also find minutes from meetings you have had with us. Read more about the activity plan and dialogue with your supervisor.

After dialogue with us, your activity plan can be changed to suit your situation. If your supervisor suggests an activity for you to carry out, you must respond in the dialog service.

Possibilities of complaint: You cannot complain if you want a special measure, but have not been offered exactly this from us.

Duty to inform NAV

You have a duty to keep NAV informed about your situation.

Let us know when your situation changes
Changes in your situation may affect the follow-up you receive, or the amount you are paid.

It is not sufficient to report such changes on the registration card — you must contact us as soon as possible. You must also get in touch if there are other changes that may affect your payment from NAV.

Here is a list of examples with changes that may have an impact on your follow-up or payment. This could be if:

There are changes at work, for example:

You get a job, full-time or part-time.
You must work more than you have informed NAV.
You receive payments from your employer.
There are changes in your health, for example:

You will recover, in whole or in part.
You cancel the agreed measure or treatment.
You are admitted to a hospital or institution.
There are changes to your privacy, for example:

You will be responsible for more or fewer children.
You are expecting a child and will apply for one-off benefit or parental allowance
You receive child allowance and the child receives his own income.
You receive a pension from another pension scheme.
You change your address or account number. Read about how to change your contact information or change your account number.
You are in custody, serving a sentence or are in custody. As a general rule, you are not entitled to AAP in such cases.
Check whether you have to inform about holidays, travel or moving.

Absence, holiday and stay abroad
AAP when moving abroad
You must also inform about interruptions in work-related activity
You must be in a work-related activity or receive follow-up from us to be entitled to AAP. If you interrupt the activity, or you cannot be in a work-oriented follow-up run, you may lose your right to AAP. Such a situation could, for example, be first-time care or pregnancy and childbirth.

Periods with work assessment allowance give the right to earn parental allowance in the same way as periods in work. In order to continue on AAP after maternity leave, it is important that you apply for AAP again before 52 weeks have passed since you last received parental benefit.

If you stay in an institution with free board and lodging, AAP will normally be reduced by 50 per cent when you have been in the institution for more than three months. Your employment verification allowance will not be reduced if you support a spouse or children, or have fixed and necessary housing expenses.

You lose your right to AAP if you are in custody or serving a sentence in an institution under the correctional system. You will still receive work clearance money if you work for an employer outside the prison in accordance with the Penal Code 3, section 20. Release.

You must report if you think you have received too much or too little money from NAV

If you have received money you are not entitled to, you must report this. If you are paid the wrong amount because you have not provided complete or correct information, we will be able to claim the money back. Repayment can be made by deducting social security benefits or salary. In some cases, it can also lead to criminal liability.

We can also claim back money that has been paid out due to an error on our part, if you understood or should have understood that the payment was incorrect.

Report card and payment

You have a duty to keep NAV informed on an ongoing basis about how you carry out your work-related activities.

If you are granted AAP, you must submit a registration card every 14 days. You use the report card to report how you carry out work-related or other agreed activities. Here you list, for example, how much you work and whether you are absent from your activity.

We calculate the payments based on what you enter on the registration card. If you do not send a registration card, you will not be paid work assessment allowance. Read more about filling in the registration card.

It is important that you submit the registration card on time. Read about how to submit a report card. If you send the registration card late, you will receive a deduction from the next payment corresponding to the number of days the registration card arrived late.

When is the money paid out?
The money will be paid out 2-3 working days after you have submitted the registration card.

In your payment overview, you can see the payment on the evening of the day the money is paid out.

Vacation money
There is no holiday pay on this allowance.

Tax
Which periods are withdrawal-free depends on your reporting cycle.

In June, the first two periods are draft-free, i.e. week 21-22 and 23-24 or week 22-23 and 24-25.

In December, the first payment is tax-free, i.e. either week 47-48, or week 48-49.

More about tax deductions on payments from NAV

Complaint possibilities
If you have had your payment deducted and believe that this is wrong, you can complain about this.

Absence, holiday and stay abroad

In order to receive work clarification allowance (AAP), you must carry out activities that you have agreed with NAV.

Disease
If you are unable to carry out the agreed activity due to short-term illness, you are still entitled to AAP. If you have to be away from activities or other activities for a long time due to illness, we will assess whether your activity plan should be changed.

Keep work clearance money during your stay abroad

Travel to a country outside the EU/EEA
If you plan to travel to a country outside the EU/EEA, you must apply to keep your AAP abroad before you travel. You can keep AAP for up to 4 weeks per calendar year when staying abroad outside the EU/EEA.

Travel to another country in the EU/EEA
If you are a citizen of an EU/EEA country and receive work clearance allowance, you no longer have to apply to travel to another EU/EEA country.

To be entitled to work clarification money, you must have an approved activity plan with agreed activities that you must follow. You can stay in another EU/EEA country if you can combine your stay with agreed activities.

To receive work verification money in another EU/EEA country, you must

be involved in drawing up the activity plan, and you must carry out the agreed activities
contact us if your stay in the EU/EEA prevents you from carrying out the agreed activity, or if you wish to carry out the activities in the EU/EEA country. We must then assess whether the new activity is necessary and appropriate.

Are you a citizen of a country outside the EU/EEA?

If you are going to travel to a country outside the Nordic countries, you must apply to keep the work permit allowance before you travel.
If you are traveling within the Nordic region, you do not need to apply. Before you consider travelling, you must nevertheless make sure that your stay does not prevent other agreed health or work-related activities and follow-up.
Absence when you are on holiday
Vacation when you receive AAP means that you

takes time off from activities you have agreed with us
takes time off and does not want to be available to us for a period of time
travels away in Norway and/or abroad and does not wish to be available to NAV for a period of time
Basically, you are not entitled to AAP when you are on holiday. This is because during holiday periods it may be relevant to participate in activities such as a summer job, meetings with NAV or other forms of follow-up. You must inform about holidays in question 4 on the registration card. Absence on holiday leads to a reduced payment.

In these cases, you can keep work assessment allowance even if you take time off or are going away:

You have clarified with us that activities or other follow-up from us are not relevant for you during the period.
Free periods where measures are not applicable – for example Christmas and Easter.
During such periods, you must not record absences on the registration card, and you will be paid AAP as normal.

Holiday pay and keeping a registration card
If you receive holiday pay because you have earned the right to holiday pay through work, this will not lead to a reduction in AAP.

Vacation from part-time position
If you have a part-time position and receive AAP on the side, your employer can order you to take holiday from the part-time position.

If you take a holiday from your part-time job during a period where you have agreed other activities with us, you must consider whether you want to take time off from these activities as well. Then you are not entitled to AAP and must tick off absence on the registration card.

Part-time position as a teacher
You must not keep hours for winding up statutory holiday as long as you can carry out the activities you have agreed with us as planned.

During the part of the summer where you take time off and receive pay in the usual way from your employer, you must enter hours on the registration card as if you were at work.

Moving abroad

Moving to a country within the EU/EEA?

If you are a citizen of an EEA country or Switzerland, you can keep your AAP when you move within the EEA area and Switzerland.

If you are a citizen of a country outside the EEA and Switzerland, as a general rule you can only keep the work permit allowance when moving within the Nordic countries, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Austria. If you are also a family member of an EEA citizen, you can keep your AAP when moving within the EEA area and Switzerland.

Move to a country outside the EU/EEA?
If you are moving to a country outside the EEA and Switzerland, you cannot keep your AAP.

The duty of activity

Since the conditions for receiving AAP also apply when you live in another EU/EEA country, it must be possible for you to carry out work-oriented measures and/or treatment in the country you are moving to.

You yourself are responsible for getting started with suitable treatment in the country you are moving to. NAV cannot help you with this. You must also be aware that poorer access to work-related measures in many countries can make it difficult for you to fulfill your activity obligation.

Contact NAV
If you are considering moving permanently to an EEA country or Switzerland, it may be a good idea to contact NAV well in advance of your move to get guidance on how this may affect your follow-up or your right to financial support.

Duties when moving
When you move abroad, you have to

report to NAV
report to the National Register
Please note that if you move abroad, you must contact the Norwegian Tax Administration about the rules for tax liability to Norway.

Additional benefits

If you carry out, or are investigated with a view to work-oriented measures, you can apply for additional benefits to cover

teaching aids
daily travel expenses
travel to compulsory meetings
expenses for home journeys
moving expenses
child supervision
additional expenses for housing

If you had carer’s allowance before you were granted work clearance allowance, the carer’s allowance is included in the calculation basis for the work clearance allowance.

In cases where care allowance is pensionable income, the hours you are paid for must be entered on the registration card.

If you have carer’s allowance in addition to employment verification allowance, this may result in a reduction or cancellation of the employment verification allowance.

About filling in the registration card
Care allowance must be entered in the period in which the work has been done, even if the payment of care allowance comes later.

If you have entered into an agreement with the municipality regarding the number of hours worked per month or the employment percentage, it is the hours or the employment percentage in this agreement that you must enter on the registration card.

If you receive a fixed sum or have another agreement that does not specify hours, the care allowance must be divided by the hourly wage of the highest paid kindergarten assistant in the municipality. The number of hours after this calculation is entered on the report card.

For example, if you receive NOK 6,000 in care allowance for a 14-day period and the highest hourly wage for kindergarten assistants is NOK 200, you must work 30 hours in this 14-day period (NOK 6,000 divided by NOK 200 = 30). If you do not know what the highest hourly wage is, you must contact the municipality.

Call us if you are unsure how to enter hours on the registration card.

If you had foster home allowance before you were granted work clarification allowance, the foster home allowance is included in the calculation basis for the work clarification allowance.

Foster home allowance is pensionable income, but the hours you are paid for must not be entered on the registration card.

Foster home allowance in addition to work clearance allowance will not result in a reduction or loss of work clearance allowance.

Measures to get to work

NAV can consider several measures and tools to help you keep or find a job.

Travel allowance (Travel allowance)

If, for a limited period, you cannot travel to and from the place of work or teaching due to illness or injury, you can have additional travel expenses covered instead of AAP. You must apply for this and document it with a doctor’s certificate showing that you cannot travel in the usual way due to illness or injury, and that you would otherwise be on sick leave.

The travel grant must cover necessary extra expenses over and above the usual expenses you incur for travel to and from your place of work or education.

Carer’s allowance?

If you had carer’s allowance before you were granted work clearance allowance, the carer’s allowance is included in the calculation basis for the work clearance allowance.

In cases where care allowance is pensionable income, the hours you are paid for must be entered on the registration card.

If you have carer’s allowance in addition to employment verification allowance, this may result in a reduction or cancellation of the employment verification allowance.

About filling in the registration card
Care allowance must be entered in the period in which the work has been done, even if the payment of care allowance comes later.

Call us if you are unsure how to enter hours on the registration card.

Apply for AAP here

Arbeidsavklaringspenger (AAP) – Søknader – www.nav.no (work assessment allowance application)

About cash support when living in Norway, visit this article.

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