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Aktivitetspenger counts as foreldrepenger income; ventelønn off page list
The Nav payments counting as income for foreldrepenger include aktivitetspenger; the income list no longer shows ventelønn though section 14-6 still equates it with occupational activity; processing times are gone.
By Taxxa AI OyPublished 6 November 2026
Parents qualifying for foreldrepenger through Nav benefits face a changed pair of lists: the page's list of Nav payments that count as income when Nav assesses the right includes aktivitetspenger — alongside sykepenger, foreldrepenger, svangerskapspenger, arbeidsavklaringspenger, dagpenger, dagpenger ved permittering and pleie- og omsorgspengerNAV — while the accompanying list of other countable income no longer shows ventelønn
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NAV, and otherwise still names first-time military or civil-defence service, work in another EEA country, severance packages and employer-paid salary during further or continuing education. The missing ventelønn entry is a page change only: folketrygdloven section 14-6 still equates periods with ventelønn with occupational activity for earning the right
Lovdata, so the statute continues to count waiting-pay months the page no longer shows. The underlying test is unchanged: income in at least 6 of the last 10 months
NAV before the parental-benefit period starts, with Lånekassen study loans and grants excluded and engangsstønad as the fallback for those without the right.
Aktivitetspenger is Nav financial support for 18-to-30-year-olds resident in Trondheim municipality who need follow-up to enter work or education — so the gain matters to young parents in that pilot, whose benefit months now count toward the six. Ventelønn, by contrast, is a closed schemeNAV for state employees made redundant through no fault of their own, with no new awards
NAV and only grants from before 29 February 2016 retained
NAV — so the page deletion touches a shrinking group of former state employees, whose waiting-pay months the statute still equates with occupational activity.
The page also stops publishing how long each case type should take: deleted are the expected times for applications — 8 weeks for an application, 6 weeks for reassessment on moving abroad, 6 months where a parent lives abroad — and for complaints and appeals — 15 weeks to the Nav unit, 3 months to the Nav complaints body, 2 months for an appeal there. The surrounding process guidance stays: the earliest answer 4 weeks before the period starts, a written decision once processed, time counted from when Nav holds all documentation including the employer's income report, and case tracking in Dine foreldrepenger.
The right to foreldrepenger is earned under folketrygdloven section 14-6 through occupational activity with pensionable income in at least six of the last ten months before a parent's take-up begins.
If you advise parents on foreldrepenger, update the qualifying-income checklist for aktivitetspenger and the missing ventelønn entry, and stop quoting Nav's old expected processing times.