Disability benefit – deductions from future payments

This applies to you if you’ve received a notice stating that a settlement has been carried out for your disability benefit, and it shows that you’ve been overpaid.

If you receive disability benefit and a settlement has been carried out, you’ll first receive a letter about this from Nav. After that, you’ll receive an invoice from us with information about how to make the payment. If you pay the full amount by the deadline, you avoid us starting a deduction from your benefit (offsetting).

We’re not able to enter into a payment agreement.

If you have questions about the settlement decision, you must contact Nav.

If you do not pay the full amount and you still receive a benefit, we’ll start offsetting. This means that we deduct what you owe from your ongoing benefit payments. You’ll then receive less in future payments.

Before we start the offsetting, we’ll review your financial situation. We can deduct up to ten percent of your benefit until the full amount has been repaid. You can choose for us to deduct more than ten percent if you prefer to repay the amount more quickly.

You can appeal if you believe the deduction is too high. You must include supporting documents proving that you do not have enough to cover your cost of living expenses.

Appeal against offsetting (RF-1377)