Allowance for care of close relatives

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This page provides information on how you can apply for a nursing or attendance allowance when you care for close relatives.

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As a parent or close family member, you can receive an allowance known as a nursing allowance or attendance allowance (pleiepenger) if you care for a sick child.

You can also receive this allowance if you care for a close relative in the last stage of life. The allowance is intended to compensate for lost income from employment.

Allowance for care of a sick child

You must have been working for the past four weeks before the attendance allowance begins. You are normally not entitled to the attendance allowance if the child has a long-term illness. The illness is regarded as long-term when it is highly likely to last for two to three years or more. But if the long-term illness is life-threatening or very serious, you may still be entitled to an attendance allowance in the initial stage of the illness or in unstable phases.

You can receive an attendance allowance for looking after a sick child for the period that the child needs continuous attention and nursing, and the other conditions for the allowance are met.

Attendance allowance for end-of-life care

You can receive care benefits, also called an attendance allowance (pleiepenger) for nursing a close relative in the last stage of life for up to 60 days for each person you nurse. You do not have to take all the days consecutively.

The days can also be shared between several people. This applies whether the care takes place in your own home or in the home of the person who needs care.

How to apply

You apply for care allowance through NAV.
After you have applied to NAV, you must register your leave in the Self-Service Portal.

1. Apply for care allowance through NAV

Pleiepenger i livets sluttfase (in Norwegian) - Nav.no
Pleiepenger for sykt barn (in Norwegian) - Nav.no

NAV adopt the resolution about care allowance and you presents this to the employer. You receive normal salary during the period and your employer receives a refund from NAV.

2. Register leave in the Self-service portal

After you have applied for care benefits from NAV, you must register it with NTNU in the self-service portal. Select the tile "Employment status" and then "request for leave".

How to fill inn the form:

Reason: Give a short description of the purpose of your request.
Choose absence: Write the same dates as you stated in the application to NAV.
Choose type of leave "care" and tick what you are applying for "460 – child care allowance" or "462 Caring allowance for close relatives". To the question "Will you be completely absent from the position?", tick yes if you will be 100 per cent absence or no if it's part-time (and indicate the attendance time as a percentage).
Describe absence: Type "send income report". That is a message to NTNU's the Service Center to process your application further.
Attachment: Upload your application to NAV.

Press "Go to submission"

What happens next?

Once you have submitted your application, it goes through the Service Center and to your leader.

You will subsequently receive a decision from NAV on your care allowance application. If there are discrepancies between the application and Nav's final decision, please contact the Service center.