Seven out of ten Nav users who make mistakes in reporting the number of working hours receive unconditional imprisonment.
It writes Today’s business.
Because while Nav users risk imprisonment, the Storting rarely does more than ask for the money back.
In light of the commuter housing cases recently, there are more who react to the differences in punishment for “ordinary people” and politicians.
Figures from Nav show that almost 69 percent of reported cases between 2017 and 2021 have ended with the reported being given unconditional imprisonment. There are 2,739 reported cases since 2017.
74 percent of the cases concern people who have worked more than they have reported on report cards.
The individual’s duty
– We look at this as very serious. It is a great betrayal, said Rune Halseth in The debates on NRK.
He served five months in a high-security prison for social security fraud of 300,000 kroner, because he had received work clearance money while he was in Denmark. After serving his sentence, it turned out that the verdict was wrong, and Halseth was acquitted of the fraud.
He now leads the interest group Nav-uppryddingen.
– I myself experienced that I stood in court and was told that the regulations were my duty to ensure that I could, said deputy head of the Nav clean-up, Marianne Evensen, The debate.
She was also wrongly convicted of social security fraud.
– In principle, there should be equality before the law. The requirements that were set for us Nav users to familiarize ourselves with the regulations themselves are strict, Evensen said.
Marianne Evensen in the association Nav-uppryddingen
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Stricter with students than politicians
NRK has also told about students who experience that they have a different trust in politicians than in students. In 2017, a comprehensive check from Lånekassen revealed that 1,600 students had given the wrong address.
When Director of the Storting Marianne Andreassen was head of Lånekassen, she cracked down hard on students who cheated with residence. She threatened with a police report and that the students could lose the right to a student loan
“Cheating on scholarships is a serious abuse of society’s welfare benefits,” Andreassen added University that time.
Andreassen says there are no sanction options for commuter housing in the regulations in the Storting.
Photo: Torstein Boe / Torstein Boe
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Andreassen is now the Storting’s director and in the case of the Storting politicians’ commuter homes, she is not as clear.
In connection with this week’s development in the commuter housing cases, she sent a comment to NRK, in which she made it clear, among other things, that the cases will not have any consequences for the parliamentary representatives.
“These cases go back in time, and the question of these previous allocations of commuter housing will not be followed up by the administration.”
– I think that if politicians who break the rules can get away with apologizing, then I know of many students who would be happy if this same scheme applied to us, says leader of the Norwegian student organization, Tuva Todnem Lund.
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