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Officials accused of failing to protect welfare worker from racist murderer

Both the City of Oslo and a private firm hired in to run a youth welfare center are the latest to be accused of...

Shots fired inside welfare agency office

Police surrounded one of Norwegian welfare agency NAV's offices in Oslo on Friday, after a man walked into it and fired two shots. No...

More receiving welfare aid in Norway

The number of people living in Norway who received state welfare aid last year was up 15 percent over the year before. The actual...

Politicians add to the ranks of Norwegians taking sick leave

The numbers of Norwegians out on sick leave have reached their highest level in 15 years, according to new numbers from state statistics bureau SSB....

Several new laws now in effect

Norwegians face, as usual, a variety of new laws, regulations, taxes and fees that took effect from January 1st. Now, for example, they have...

Norway slips again on UN’s happiness report

A new UN report confirms that money can't always buy happiness: Even though Norway is among the wealthiest countries in the world, its people...

NAV worker killed, another injured

Two women working for Norwegian state welfare agency NAV in Bergen were stabbed by a NAV client on Monday. One later died of her...

Norway no longer ‘best place to live’

NEWS ANALYSIS: Oil has long fueled Norway's hugely successful welfare state, but now it's helped knock the country off the top of the UN's...

NAV scandal leaves no one accountable

NEWS ANALYSIS: Nine months after Norway was clobbered by its biggest welfare scandal of all time, not a single top bureaucrat or politician is...

NAV struggles to pay out benefits

Government officials were confident that they'd be able to quickly set up a new system to pay full unemployment benefits to thousands of newly...
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