The organization Nav-cleanup, 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. The state has denied the Nav victims redress on the grounds that there is no legal basis in Norwegian law for this, writes NTB. – 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. Will not comment The case may have significance for thousands of other victims, if it goes as Halseth, Irgens and Evensen will. – There must be some pilot cases. Such a case has never been raised in Norway, says Halseth. Minister of Labor and Social Inclusion Marte Mjøs Persen does not want to comment on the summons. – It would not be right of me to say anything now about the content of the lawsuit which is directed to the state at the Ministry of Labor and Social Inclusion and others. The state will provide a response to the summons in accordance with the deadline from the Oslo District Court, she writes to news via a communications adviser in the ministry. Rune Halseth and Marianne Evensen are two of those who are now suing the state. 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 for Nav’s misinterpretation of the rules. The Nav victims have been reimbursed the amounts they mistakenly had to pay Nav after being accused and convicted of fraud. 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. Now they are asking Nav to pay full interest, which they estimate will amount to 37 million kroner for all the 7,500 cases in which the state has acknowledged that mistakes have been made. Believes misinterpretation goes further back in time changed its cases after Nav’s misinterpretation of the EEA rules was revealed in 2019. The misinterpretation of the regulations dates back to 2012. Nav demanded that those who received support from Nav had to stay on Norwegian soil. This has resulted in at least 78 people being assumed to have been wrongly convicted of social security fraud due to incorrect application of the law in the period 2014-2019, figures from the Attorney General show. The organization and the three plaintiffs are 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. In the summons, the Nav clean-up also asks for access to a hitherto secret report from the Ministry of Labor and Social Inclusion in 2014. It believes the plaintiffs prove that the ministry understood that Nav’s practice was wrong long before 2019.
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