NAV (Norway)

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NorwayNorway NAV
State level Federation
Position of the authority Labor and Welfare Administration
Supervisory authority (s) Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
Consist since 2006
Authority management Hans Christian Holte
Website nav.no/en
NAV office in Oslo's Tøyen district

The NAV (also Arbeids- og velferdsforvaltning ; German : Labor and Welfare Administration) is the authority in Norway that is responsible for the organization and financing of labor market measures, social assistance and social security benefits . It was founded in 2006.

history

The NAV was founded on July 1, 2006. In the time that followed, a network of local offices for the authority was set up. The first 110 facilities were opened in 2007, followed by 160 more over the next two years. The authority currently has 456 branches in various municipalities and districts. It was founded by amalgamating the two previous authorities, Aetat and Trygdeetaten . Aetat was responsible for the employment agency, the second authority for the distribution of social benefits.

The social committee of the Norwegian parliament, the Storting , gave the first impetus for the merger of the two authorities . In autumn 2001, the latter proposed the merger to the Bondevik II government . In response, the government initially published a counterproposal that provided for a restructuring that would have created an authority only for pensioners. However, Parliament voted against this proposal, so a special committee was set up to find possible solutions. This again suggested the division into pensioners and employees.

In March 2005, however, the government presented a plan calling for the comprehensive authority that was ultimately established. The proposal was passed into law by the Storting in May 2005.

NAV scandal 2019

At the end of October 2019, it became known that the agency had incorrectly implemented a guideline in around 2500 cases since at least 2012 and that this had incorrectly led to prison sentences in at least 36 cases. Both the staff of the authority and the judges who judged had therefore not proceeded correctly. The background to this was that the NAV cut people off social benefits when they were in other EU countries, as had been regulated in the past by Norwegian law. However, due to Norway's membership in the European Economic Area , this was no longer legal, as the authority has to adhere to EU law.

The Ministry of Social Affairs responsible for the authority, led by Minister Anniken Hauglie of the conservative Høyre party , was also criticized for not reacting too long after the wrongful judgments became known internally. One person was sentenced after the minister had already received the evidence of the facts. The parties Rødt and Sosialistisk Venstreparti (SV) therefore considered trying to get a vote of no confidence in Hauglie in the Norwegian parliament, the Storting . The vote sought by the Rødt politician Bjørnar Moxnes failed clearly in parliament. In January 2020, hearings on the case were started in Storting. Before the end of these hearings, the SV parliamentary group and the MEPs of the Green Party Miljøpartiet De Grønne (MDG) announced that they would support a vote of no confidence. The other opposition parties wanted to wait for the investigation to end. Anniken Hauglie left the Solberg government on January 24, 2020 . Hauglie stated that it was her own request. Torbjørn Røe Isaksen became the new labor and social affairs minister . On January 31, 2020, the head of NAV Sigrun Vågeng announced that she would retire from her post in August 2020. Her successor, Hans Christian Holte , was presented by the government in June 2020.

In June 2020, the agency said it had re-examined 1,171 cases. In 604 cases, the result was cash repayments totaling 23 million kroner.

organization

The agency is subordinate to the Norwegian Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and administers around a third of the total state budget. The reason for this is that she is responsible for the payment of sickness benefit , pension , child benefit and unemployment benefit (called Dagpenger ). This makes it one of the largest authorities in Norway. The individual NAV branches must work together with the municipalities, as they are allowed to define the exact area of ​​responsibility of the local branch. Thus, the different branches also offer their citizens different services.

The current boss is Sigrun Vågeng , who took over from Joakim Lystad in 2015 . A total of around 19,000 employees work for the authority, of which around 14,000 are employed by the state and 5,000 by the municipalities.

Surname

The name NAV was initially an abbreviation for Ny arbeids- og velferdsforvaltning ( German : New Labor and Welfare Administration ). However, it is now used as the official proper name of the authority.

Obtaining money from the authorities has been colloquially known since around 2012 using the verb "å nave". The recipients are given the noun "naver". In 2012 the verb was voted Word of the Year by the Norwegian Language Council.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arbeidsdepartementet: Bakgrunnen for NAV reforms. January 10, 2017, accessed October 9, 2019 (Norwegian).
  2. ^ Justice scandal in Norway - social fraudsters who weren't. Retrieved on November 10, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ Rudolf Hermann: A judicial scandal shakes the trust of the Norwegians in their welfare state | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed on November 10, 2019]).
  4. ↑ David Vojislav Krekling: Erik (38) ble DOMT etter at arbeidsministeren ble varslet om trygdeskandalen. In: NRK. October 30, 2019, accessed on November 10, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  5. ^ Thomas Spence, Jørgen Arnor G. Lom: 14 dager som kan avgjøre statsrådens skjebne. In: Aftenposten. November 10, 2019, accessed on November 10, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  6. ↑ Hallvard Norum: Mistillitsforslag mot Anniken Hauglie stemt ned i Stortinget. November 27, 2019, accessed on December 23, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  7. ↑ Astrid Randen: SV varsler mistillit mot Hauglie. January 13, 2020, accessed on January 25, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  8. ↑ Martin HW Zondag: SV and Ap reagerer på Solbergs Hauglie-forklaring: - Må ikke tro hun slipper unna. January 24, 2020, accessed on January 25, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  9. ↑ Derfor går Nav sjefen av i august. Retrieved February 16, 2020 (Norwegian).
  10. ↑ Hanna Ghaderi: Påtroppende Nav sjef: - He opptatt av å Styrke tillites. In: e24. June 15, 2020, accessed June 30, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  11. ↑ Thomas Spence: Nav-offer har fått over én million kroner tilbakebetalt. In: Aftenposten. June 20, 2020, accessed June 21, 2020 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  12. ↑ Organizing av NAV - www.nav.no. Retrieved October 9, 2019 (Norwegian).
  13. ↑ Kva er NAV? - www.nav.no. Retrieved October 9, 2019 (Norwegian).
  14. ↑ Navere leverte årets ord. Retrieved December 23, 2019 (Norwegian).
  15. ↑ Årets ord: å nave (naving). Retrieved December 23, 2019 (Norwegian).