Sickness benefit & Helfo card

You can receive sickness benefit if everything on this list applies to you:

• You are a member of the National Insurance Scheme (Folketrygden)
• You are younger than 70 years.
• You cannot work because you are ill or injured.
• You were working for at least four weeks before you became ill.
• Your sickness leave means that you must be away from work for at least 20 percent of your working hours. The work must provide pensionable income, ie income you receive as salary and pay tax on.
• Your income equals at least fifty per cent of the basic amount in the National Insurance Scheme (1/2 G, Grunnbeløpet). This income limit applies only after the employer liability period, which is usually up to the first 16 days of sick leave.