Claim for cash-for-care benefit for parents of young childrenGeneral information

You must provide the information, statements and certificates necessary for NAV to determine whether or not you are en-titled to cash-for-care benefit. A municipal register has been set up containing information about the use of kindergartens by children aged between one and two. NAV receives infor-mation from this register every month and checks it against the information you have provided, see section 16 of the Cash Benefit Act..You must tell NAV if your child starts kindergarten, or if your child’s allotted hours in kindergarten change. You may be entitled to cash-for-care benefit if the allotted hours are reduced to less than 20 hours per week or if your child stops

The purpose of cash-for-care benefitCash-for-care benefit is intended to help: • families to have more time to take care of their children

themselves• families to have a real choice about who cares for their

children• ensure greater equality in the help individual families

receive from the state for childcare

Entitlement conditions for cash-for-care benefit• The child must be aged between one and two. In the

case of adopted children, the upper limit for entitlement to cash-for-care benefit is up to and including the month the child starts school.

• The child and the person who will receive the cash-for-care benefit must be resident in Norway. A person is deemed resident in Norway if he/she has lived, or is going to live, in Norway for more than 12 months. Under the EEA rules, cash-for-care benefit can be granted on certain conditions if one of the parents works in Norway, regardless of which EEA country the child lives in.

• The child must not be, or only partly be, using a publicly subsidised kindergarten place. Kindergartens may provide information about this.

Who is entitled to cash-for-care benefit?The person with whom the child lives on a permanent ba-sis is the person who is entitled to cash-for-care benefit. Assessments of with whom a child lives on a permanent basis are based on the rules of the Children Act. When a child’s parents live together, the benefit is paid to the parent who claimed cash-for-care benefit. If both parents submitted the claim, the cash-for-care benefit is paid to the mother.If the parents do not live together but have signed a dual domicile agreement concerning the child under section 36 of the Children Act, the cash-for-care benefit can be split if the child does not use a publicly subsidised kindergarten place.

How much cash-for-care benefit will you receive?Cash-for-care benefit may be paid for a maximum of 11 months. Your child’s allotted hours in a publicly subsidised kindergarten determine how much cash-for-care benefit you will receive. If the child uses a kindergarten place in an EEA country other than Norway, entitlement to cash-for-care benefit depends on whether or not it is a publicly subsidised kindergarten. ’Allotted hours’ means the maximum number of hours the child can be in the kindergarten. The child spending less time in kindergarten will not affect the size of the cash-for-care benefit. You cannot receive cash-for-care benefit if the child has a full-time place in a kindergarten, i.e. if the allotted hours are 20 hours or more per week. When the allotted hours are less than 20 hours per week, you may receive 50 per cent of the full cash-for-care benefit rate.You can find out more about the rates on: www.nav.no/familie/kontantstøtte. The Storting (Norwegian parliament) fixes the annual rates for cash-for-care benefit and rates are therefore subject to change. Cash-for-care benefit is a tax-free benefit.

When can you receive cash-for-care benefit?You can receive cash-for-care benefit from the month after the child’s 1st birthday, or from the month after it leaves kin-dergarten. You should therefore submit your claim the month before since NAV requires up-to-date information. The benefit can be paid up to and including the month before the child’s 2nd birthday.You can receive cash-for-care benefit for adopted children after your period of entitlement to full parental benefits for adoption expires, or would have expired if you were entitled to parental benefits for adoption. The same date applies if you have recei-ved a lump-sum grant. You can receive cash-for-care benefit for a period of up to 11 months until the adopted child starts school.Cash-for-care benefit is changed from the month after the allotted hours in kindergarten are changed.Cash-for-care benefit cannot be backdated for more than three months before the calendar month in which a claim was submitted (section 8 of the Cash Benefit Act).

ClaimsYou must always complete pages 1 and 2 of this form. Keep this general information after you have completed pages 1 and 2. Send your claim (pages 1 and 2) to NAV. You must enclose the child’s birth certificate if the child is not registered in the Norwegian National Population Register.If you are claiming cash-for-care benefit under the EEA Agreement’s rules, you must complete both an ordinary

claim form and a ’Supplementary form for claims for payment of child benefit and/or cash-for-care benefit based on export rules under the EEA Agreement’.Once your claim has been processed and a decision made about whether or not you are entitled to cash-for-care benefit, you will receive written notification from NAV.

Your obligations as a benefit recipientusing a kindergarten place. In these circumstances you should claim cash-for-care benefit.If you receive cash-for-care benefit under the EEA rules and you or the other parent starts or stops working, you must tell NAV.NAV can demand repayment of any cash-for-care benefit that has been paid because you have negligently failed to provide, or have provided incorrect, information. The same also applies to cash-for-care benefit you have received and to which you ought to have understood you were not entitled (section 11 of the Cash Benefit Act). You may also be liable for prosecution in such cases (section 23 of the Cash Benefit Act)..

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1.1 Cash-for-care benefit should be claimed by the per-son with whom the child lives on a permanent basis. If the child lives with both parents, they can choose who will submit the claim. If the child lives with just one of the parents on a permanent basis, that parent is the person who should claim. If the parents have signed a dual domicile agreement (under section 38 of the Children Act) and want to split the cash-for-care benefit, both parents must submit the claim.

1.2 Usually you are only entitled to cash-for-care benefit if you are resident in Norway. You will be deemed resident if you have lived in Norway for 12 months or if it is likely you will live in Norway for more than 12 months. Therefore, if you have lived in Norway for less than 12 months, the information you provide about when you arrived in Norway and how long you intend to stay must be accurate. If you are an asylum seeker, the earliest cash-for-care benefit can be paid is from the moment a decision has been made about your asylum or residence status in Norway.

Short, temporary periods abroad of up to three months do not affect you residency status. If you are abroad for a continuous period of more than three months, you will no longer be deemed to fulfil the residency requirement. You must provide information about plan-ned stays abroad, including those that will be shorter than three months. Use box 6 if you need to.

3 The main condition for entitlement to cash-for-care benefit under Norwegian law is that the child must be resident in Norway. Under the EEA Agreement, you may also be entitled to cash-for-care benefit from the EEA country in which a parent works or receives a pension from, even if the child is resident in another EEA country. If the child is resident in another EEA country while one of the parents works in Norway or on the Norwegian continental shelf, you may be en-titled to cash-for-care benefit from Norway. In these circumstances you must enclose documentation about the employment relationship with your claim for cash-for-care benefit. If you are claiming cash-for-care benefit under the EEA Agreement’s rules, you must complete both an ordinary claim form and a ’Supplementary form for claims for payment of child benefit and/or cash-for-care benefit based on export rules under the EEA Agreement’.

4.1 You can receive cash-for-care benefit for a period of 11 months for a child aged between one and two. Adopted children are exempt from the upper limit of two years old, meaning that you can receive cash-

for-care benefit for a period of up to 11 months until the child starts school. You must state whether the child lives with you on a permanent basis or whether a dual domicile agreement has been signed with the child’s other parent. The dual domicile agreement must be produced. In these circumstances the cash-for-care benefit can be split 50/50 if the parents agree. Split cash-for-care benefit is conditional on neither of the parents having the child in a publicly subsidised kindergarten, see point 5 below. In the case of disa-greement, the cash-for-care benefit will be paid to the parent with whom the child is registered as living on a permanent basis in the Norwegian National Population Register.

4.2 You can receive cash-for-care benefit for adopted children the month after your period of entitlement to full parental benefits for adoption expires, or would have expired if you were entitled to parental benefits for adoption. The same date applies if you have recei-ved a lump-sum grant. You can receive cash-for-care benefit for a period of up to 11 months until the child starts school. You must therefore tell us if the child is adopted.

4.3 You are not entitled to cash-for-care benefit for foster children you care for under the rules of the Child Wel-fare Act.

4.4 The child must, like you, be resident in Norway. See the comments regarding box 1.2 and the comments regarding box 3 about exemptions.

4.5 You are not entitled to cash-for-care benefit if the child lives in a foster home, children’s home, or a similar institution under the rules of the Child Welfare Act.

5 Entitlement to cash-for-care benefit is conditional on whether or not the child uses a publicly subsidised kin-dergarten place. Kindergartens may provide information about this. You are not entitled to cash-for-care benefit if the child’s allotted hours in such a kindergarten are 20 hours or more per week. If the allotted hours are 19 hours or less, you may receive 50 per cent of the full cash-for-care benefit rate. It is the number of hours allotted to the child in the kindergarten at any time that determines whether or not you are entitled to cash-for-care benefit and, if so, the amount you will receive, not how long the child actually spends in kindergarten.

Completing the formFurther information about some of the boxes on the form is provided below. You can provide additional information in box 6 or on a separate sheet of paper.

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If no, when did you arrive in Norway? Are you going to live here continuously for more than 12 months? Provide details in box 6.

Does the other parent of any of the children work abroad, on a foreign shop or on a foreign continental shelf?

CASH-FOR-CARE BENEFITClaim for cash-for-care benefit for parents of young childrenPlease read the general information provided on pages 1 and 2 before completing the form.

The boxes below must be completed by the claimant.

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2 Information about the other parentIf the children listed in box 4 do not have the same mother/father, provide details in box 6.

Surname, first name(s) Norwegian national ID no. (11 digits)

Home address

Telephone number

Home municipalityPostcode and postal town

3 Information about country of work/pension origin3.1

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.5

Do you work abroad, on a foreign ship or on a foreign continental shelf?

If yes, what country? Provide additional information in box 6.

Do you receive a pension from abroad?If yes, what country? Provide additional information in box 6.

Nationality

If yes, what country? Provide additional information in box 6.

1 Information about you (the claimant) Surname, first name(s)

1.1

1.2

Norwegian national ID no. (11 digits) Telephone number

Home address

Postcode and postal town Home municipality Nationality

Are you re sident in Norway?

Have you lived in Norway continuously for the past 12 months?

Yes No

Are you an asylum seeker?

4 Information about the children for whom you are claiming cash-for-care benefit

Child’s surname, first name(s) Norwegian national ID no. (11 digits)

Does the child live with you on a per-manent basis?

Has dual domi-cile be agreed with the other parent?

Are any of the children listed adopted?

If yes, have parental benefits or a lump-sum grant been paid?

Are any of the children listed foster children?

Have the children been living in Norway continuously for the last 12 months?

If no, are they going to live in Norway continuously for more than 12 months?

Do any of the children live in a children’s home or similar institution?

If yes, state which children.

If yes, also state the institution’s name and address.

Do any of the children live in a foster home?

If yes, state which children.

Do any of the children live in a country other than Norway?

If yes, what country? Provide additional information in box 6.

Child no.

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2

3

Are any of the children asylum seekers?If yes, state which children.

If yes, provide details in box 6.

If yes, state which NAV office paid the benefit:If no, enclose documentation showing when you took over care of the adopted child. Provide any additional information in box 6.

4.2

4.3

4.1

4.4

4.5

Yes NoIf yes, provide details in box 6.

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No Yes No

Yes No Yes No

Yes No Yes No

Yes NoYes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No

Does the other parent of any of the children receive a pension from abroad?

If yes, what country? Provide additional information in box 6.

Yes No

Are any of the children listed in box 4 receiving cash-for-care benefit from a country other than Norway?

If yes, what country? Provide additional information in box 6.

Yes No

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2

3

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2

3

5 Information about kindergarten useDo any of the children listed in box 4 attend a publicly subsidised kindergarten in Norway, or a publicly subsidised kindergarten in a country other than Norway?

Yes No

Child’s first name(s)

Kindergarten’s name, address and municipality

Allotted hours per week from (date)

If the allotted hours have changed, or such changes are planned, please provide further information in this box.

6 Additional information

7 Signature 8 Signature of guardianDate and signature Date and signature of guardian

Address of guardian

Child no.

Child no.

Hours Date

(If the claimant is under 18 years old)

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From (date)

The allotted hours are the maximum number of hours the child can attend the kindergarten

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