This scheme is applicable if your health is such that you can return to work, but not to the job you are on sick leave from.

The scheme applies to everyone who was working at the time they went on sick leave. Both employees, self-employed and freelancers can be entitled to the scheme.

Please write to us if you want us to assess whether the scheme is relevant for you.

You can also talk to your doctor or contact your Nav office if you think this scheme may be relevant to you. 

Your Nav advisor must also assess whether there is anything Nav can do to help you find a new job.

You can receive sickness benefit for up to 12 weeks while you look for a job. If you have not found a new job by that time, you can apply for unemployment benefit. 

You can receive sickness benefit for up to 52 weeks. That includes the weeks you receive sickness benefit through the fit for employment scheme.

If you have less than 12 weeks of the sickness benefit, the period you can receive sickness benefit through the fit for employment scheme will be shorter.

To use the scheme “fit for employment”, you must do the following:

1. Initiate the scheme. Both you, the one who has put you on sick leave, and Nav can do this. You can initiate the scheme by contacting your advisor at the Nav office.
2. Confirm with Nav that you can use the scheme. This must be done regardless of who initiates the scheme.
3. Resign from your job, and your employer must give you written confirmation of this. If you have a notice period, you must also get confirmation from your employer that you are released from working during the notice period.
4. Register as a job seeker with Nav. 

Receive a decision from Nav that you can use the scheme “fit for employment”.

It is important that you do this in the correct order, so you don't risk losing your income.

To receive sickness benefit as declared for fit for employment scheme, you must submit an application for sickness benefit every 14 days. You will see when the applications should be sent after you have received a decision on being declared fit for employment scheme. We need the information from the application to calculate how much you should be paid.

When you receive sickness benefit through the fit for employment scheme, the employment status form works as an application for sickness benefit. The payment dates for sickness benefits also apply to you.

You will receive the sickness benefit payment on the 25th of the month if we have received and processed your employment status form before the 20th of that month. If we receive and process your form after this date, you will normally receive the sickness benefit payment within 5 days.

This means that if you have an employment status form where the period runs from the end of one month to the beginning of the next, your payment may be split up:

You submit an employment status form for the period 27/01–09/02. We receive and process your form by 15/02. You will receive two payments for this period:

• The first payment within 5 days, for the period 27/01–31/01.
• The next payment will come on 25/02, for the period 01/02–09/02.

If you believe your payment was too low, or we made incorrect deductions, please contact us so we can check your case.

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