Agreements for child maintenance and other maintenance payments
We can help you with a payment agreement if you’re unable to pay the entire amount at once. It’s important that you follow up the agreement so that your claim does not proceed to enforcement proceedings and a deduction in income.
Paying maintenance in instalments
You can pay in instalments if you have a child maintenance claim or other maintenance claim with retrospective effect (maintenance debts).
Once the child maintenance payment scheme is established, there is often a backlog of due payments that the maintenance payer owes the maintenance recipient. This happens because the period for child maintenance starts with the date of the application. This means that payments are applied retrospectively and you therefore have maintenance debt to pay.
When the invoice for the maintenance debt arrives by post, you can choose to pay the entire sum at once or you can spread the payments over several months through a payment agreement. You must pay the maintenance debt (from the backlog) in addition to the regular monthly maintenance payment.
If you do not pay your maintenance debt, the claim will be collected via enforcement proceedings.
Criteria for dividing up the claim
- The monthly instalment amount must be at least NOK 500 for claims under
NOK 18,000. - Claims under NOK 100,000 must be paid within three years.
- Claims of NOK 100,000 or more must be paid within five years.
- It’s important that you do not default on the claim.
You may propose a monthly instalment sum above the minimum amounts. We’ll consider your proposal against our requirements. You cannot appeal the payment agreement.
The monthly instalment cannot be split into several payments. This means that you must pay the maintenance debt in addition to the monthly maintenance.
Apply for a debt settlement scheme
If you have serious debt problems, a debt settlement scheme can give you the opportunity to gain control over your finances.
Two main criteria
There are two main criteria for being granted a debt settlement scheme:
- You must be permanently unable to pay. This means that your financial problems are permanent and that you’re unable to repay the debt in the foreseeable future.
- Your debt settlement proposal must not appear unreasonable or offensive to others.
Applying to cancel a maintenance debt
You can apply to NAV to cancel your child maintenance debt or other maintenance debt.
Contact NAV to find out what you need to do.
The Collection Agency for Child Support and Overpaid Benefits in the Tax Administration has the authority to process and decide applications for cancelling reminder fees related to your maintenance case.
The collection continues until the case is settled
An application for the cancellation of a claim will usually not stop the collection process. The collection process will not be stopped unless your application is approved.