AAP - work assessment allowance
Work assessment allowance provides income while you are ill and need support to return to work.
1. Who is entitled to AAP?
To receive AAP, your ability to work must be reduced by at least 50%. NAV supports labour market activation through employment schemes, benefits during treatment and other follow-up measures.
Your reduced ability to work must be mainly due to illness or injury. There must be a possibility of improving your ability to work through treatment or an employment scheme. The aim is for you to be able to find or keep a job during the period in which you receive AAP. To apply for AAP, you do not need to receive sick pay or other benefits from NAV.
1.1. Duty to take action
To qualify for AAP, you must actively try to find employment. The duty to take action means that:
- you are involved in preparing a specific action plan to return to work,
- you attend scheduled meetings with NAV,
- you provide the information and documentation NAV needs to help you,
- you carry out the activities that you and your NAV adviser have agreed in your plan,
- you must notify NAV if anything prevents you from following the agreed plan.
If you do not carry out the agreed activities, NAV may reduce or suspend your work assessment allowance.
2. What can you receive?
AAP corresponds to 66% of income from the year before the illness or the average of the last three years before the illness. You will receive whichever calculation is most favourable in your situation. The AAP you are entitled to will be determined based on your previous income and whether you have children. Annual income above six times the National Insurance basic amount (6G) is not included when calculating AAP.
3. How long are you entitled to AAP?
As a general rule, you cannot receive AAP for more than three years. However, the length of time you receive AAP will depend on how long you need to take part in work-related activities or receive medical treatment before you can work. Therefore, the work assessment allowance period will vary from person to person.
The work assessment allowance period may be extended beyond three years if:
- due to illness or injury, you were unable to start initiatives/treatment until after a lengthy assessment,
- due to illness or injury, you were unable to combine treatment and initiatives.
You may also receive AAP for up to two years to complete an approved training programme. The work assessment allowance period may be extended by a maximum of two years. If you have received AAP for the maximum period, you must wait 52 weeks before you can have a new AAP period. This does not apply in cases of serious illness or injury.
4. Employment status (meldekort)
To receive AAP payments, you must submit an employment status form every 14 days. NAV uses the employment status form to track your status and calculate payments. AAP is calculated and paid based on the information provided in the employment status form.
You must state how much you have worked and how long you have been active during the last 14 days, and confirm that you will remain registered with NAV for the next period. The payment will be calculated based on the information provided in the form. If the employment status form has been completed correctly and submitted on time, payment will be made within 2-3 days after the employment status form has been registered.
It is important that you submit the employment status form on time. If you send the employment status form late, a deduction will be made from the next payment corresponding to the number of days the employment status form was delayed.
AAP is taxed as earned income and is also pensionable income.
5. What does the service include?
The service includes:
- sending the application to NAV together with the required documentation (if sent by post, we are not responsible for the dispatch),
- attaching additional documentation (up to 2 times), further document/message submissions relating to the case are chargeable.
NOTE: The decision on whether the benefit is granted is made by NAV in Norway. The service only covers mediation between you and the public office.
6. Required documents
To carry out the service, we will need from you:
- all medical documentation - medical history,
- a medical opinion.