After the New Year, the rule of how much you can work and receiving unemployment benefits has changed
- Before the new year, you could get unemployment benefit if you worked up to 60% of normal working hours for the 14-day reference period.
- After the New Year, you can receive Unemployment Benefit if you work up to 50% of normal working hours during the 14-day reference period.
- Unemployment benefit is financial help while you are looking for a job. Consequently, when you receive unemployment benefits, you must apply for a job and participate in labor market measures. NAV will help you get back to work when needed.
- The application form must be sent every 14 days. Even during waiting for a response from NAV on the approval of unemployment benefits.
- It is important that you inform NAV if the situation changes or if you are traveling on vacation or abroad.
- You are not entitled to unemployment benefits while you are sick. If you are sick when you receive Unemployment Benefit, you must be on sick leave from day one to be entitled to Illness Benefit. The duration of illness is not included in the unemployment benefit. You are receiving sickness benefit during this time
Did you quit your job yourself?
You must notify NAV and submit the waiver. Document the reason for your resignation and whether you need unemployment benefits.
If Nav decides you had no valid reason to quit your job, you will not be paid Unemployment Benefit for 12 weeks. From 1 January 2021 this is changed to 18 weeks. The application form should be sent every 14 days, also during this period.
The waiting time for the first payment - waiting days
If you are receiving unemployment benefits from January 1, 2021, you will not receive unemployment benefits for the first three days in the new unemployment benefit period. This is a deduction before unemployment benefit is paid and is called waiting days.
Days when you are sick, on vacation or work more than 50% of normal working hours do not count towards waiting days.
If you are sick, have vacation or work so much that you will not have three waiting days in the first 15 working days, you will not qualify for Unemployment Benefit. Your unemployment benefit case will then be closed without notice. You can re-apply if you meet the conditions again.
In the event of temporary leave (permittering), the unemployment benefit period is extended to 49 weeks
The period during which you can receive unemployment benefits if you are temporarily released (permittering), it is extended from 26 to 49 weeks. If you are receiving unemployment benefits, this period will be automatically extended.
From 1 March 2021, a new period of 1 week will be introduced with the right to be paid by the employer for anyone who has been in receipt of unemployment benefits for 30 weeks or more.
If you are dismissed, you may then be entitled to:
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Salary from the employer
You will be paid for the first 2 weeks of leave (10 days). This is called the Employer 1 Period.
If you were dismissed between March 20 and August 31, 2020, you received salary from your employer for the first 2 days of dismissal, and then NAV compensation by 20. The deadline for claiming compensation was December 31, 2020.
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Unemployment benefits
You receive NAV Unemployment Benefit for 30 weeks.
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Salary from the employer
Salary from the employer for 1 week (5 days). This is Employer 2 Period and will be introduced from 1.3.2021. After this week, you will receive unemployment benefits again.
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Unemployment benefits
NAV Unemployment Benefit for 19 weeks.
When can I lose my unemployment benefit?
If you keep unemployment benefits
- you turn 67
- you work 6 weeks without unemployment benefit
- you are submitting your report too late
- is no longer an active job seeker. You should be ready to take any job at any time place in Norway and participate in labor market initiatives.
NAV may withhold your unemployment benefits while you are on sick leave. If you are at least 50% sick, you are not entitled to unemployment benefit but may be entitled to Illness Benefit. NAV suspends unemployment benefit from the first day of sick leave.
NAV may also withhold your unemployment benefit if you start receiving other financial support from NAV to cover your subsistence or unemployment benefit from the Fisheries Guarantee Fund.
Your unemployment benefit may be suspended automatically after the information you provide on your application form. Or as a result of information we receive from public records.
You may temporarily lose your unemployment benefit
You will lose Unemployment Benefit for 12 weeks (18 weeks after January 1, 2021) if you have no valid reason
- you do not apply for or accept job offers anywhere in the country
- you refuse to participate in a work-oriented initiative
- dismissal or dismissal due to circumstances in which the cause is on your side
If this happens several times in a 12-month period, waiting for benefits is extended to 26 weeks.
Unemployment benefit in Norway
You will lose your allowance for unemployed for 4 weeks if you do not show up at NAV for no good reason after being notified of the appointment. If you are unable to attend due to illness, you must have a medical certificate.
You must send an application form and meet the requirement to be a real jobseeker at all times.
