Go abroad when you are sick or unemployed? – Dagbladet.no

• Several travel cases on db.no/reise. (Dinside.no): Do you receive support from the NAV, it is not certain you should add this year’s holiday abroad. In that case you risk getting cut in benefits for the days you stay abroad.

Who this applies depends on what kind of support you receive.

Note also that NAV has methods to check whether you have been abroad or not.

Also read: Now the holiday pay from NAV have come on account

Unemployed lose support

Unemployed receiving unemployment benefit, is among those who lose all support for overseas holidays.

You need to bring up any vacation in employment status form and will not receive unemployment benefit for those days.

If you receive rehabilitation benefit (AAP) can exceptionally receive support while you are abroad.

Then it according to NAV talk about for reasonable periods between actions, or while waiting for treatment.

To maintain AAP during stays abroad must stay be consistent with the implementation of the approved activity.

Moreover abroad last for a maximum of four weeks and one must apply to NAV for this beforehand. It is the local NAV office that decides whether you get to keep AAP abroad.

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This happens with sickness at holiday

Are you sick you can go on vacation, but be aware of is that the sickness stopped while you are away. The period of sickness benefits shifted correspondingly the time you’ve been on vacation.

You can, however, apply to retain the sickness for a limited time during visits abroad.

The sick leave must first confirm that the stay abroad does not worsen the state of health, prolongs disability or prevents NAV control and monitoring.

Are you sick and considering the holiday, you must apply for this at your local NAV offices, since the individual NAV office treats such applications.

Read also: Sick holiday? When you are entitled to new vacation

Vacation for three weeks with NAV Support

Are you a job seeker with redundancy can take up to three weeks holiday during the calendar year while getting paid severance pay, even if they are abroad these holiday weeks.

Recipients of redundancy is in fact exempt from being job seekers from accepting offers of measures, and to attend to the summons by NAV in the holiday period.

If the recipients of severance want to take out more than three weeks vacation, will not be paid severance pay beyond the three weeks.

When waiting wage earners to take out holiday, they must notify the insurance office about this.

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How can NAV check you

DinSide have previously written about what methods NAV will have to check if the NAV users follow criteria for receiving
support.

Among other uses NAV care of that so-called Currency register, to check whether such recipients of unemployment benefit has been abroad without reporting this.

– Currency Index is one of several remedies that can used to check whether a beneficiary has had abroad without reporting, the NAV’s press service stated to DinSide earlier.

Section Manager Magne Fladby NAV has previously told that they collect information from several state registers checking including income and residence to beneficiaries.

The matter was originally published at DinSide Read here.