Organization The Nav clean-up convenes the state – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country

Organization The Nav clean-up, which represents victims of the Nav scandal, has sued the state at the Ministry of Labor and Social Inclusion, Nav and the Ministry of Justice. It shows the summons, which news has been given access to. The association asks for redress compensation and full default interest, the summons shows. – We hope that the state now takes responsibility, admits its guilt and shows willingness to clean up, as they have said since the scandal broke, Rune Halseth says to news. He is one of the plaintiffs in the case, in addition to Anette Irgens and Marianne Evensen. The case could have significance for thousands of other victims, if it goes as Halseth, Irgens and Evensen want. – There must be some pilot cases. Such a case has never been raised in Norway, says Halseth. Photo: news Halseth says that the Nav victims have not received compensation after being wrongly convicted of social security fraud. Only Evensen has received money from the State Civil Law Administration. Both she and Halseth were imprisoned because of the Nav scandal. The repayment they have received has been with half interest. Halseth and the Nav clean-up believe, however, that Nav should repay the misdemeanors at full interest. The Nav victims have been reimbursed the amounts they mistakenly had to pay Nav after being accused of fraud. The repayment they have received has been with half interest. They are now asking Nav to pay full interest, which they estimate will amount to NOK 37 million for all the 7,500 cases in which the state has acknowledged that mistakes have been made. More than 7,000 social security recipients have had their cases changed after Nav’s misinterpretation of the EEA rules was revealed in 2019. Nav demanded that those who received support from Nav must stay on Norwegian soil. The association is represented by the law firm Elden. Halseth says they have several thousand members. He believes there are far more victims in the Nav scandal than the authorities have so far determined.



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