Posted workers outside the EU/EEA

You might be considered a posted worker when you work temporarily abroad for your employer in Norway and receive your wages from this employer.​

This presupposes that your employer pays employer's National Insurance contributions to Norway. You retain your mandatory membership of the Norwegian National Insurance Scheme during your temporary period of work abroad and will be entitled to reimbursement for medical expenses from Norway.

Read more on nav.no about the Norwegian National Insurance Scheme membership when working abroad (in Norwegian only).  

Dependent spouses and children or dependent cohabitants and shared children will have the same health care entitlements as yourself in the country in which you are working.

Your rights apply regardless of whether you use public or private healthcare.

Read about which rights you have with extended subsidisation.  

When applying to Helfo for reimbursement, you need

• necessary documentation of health conditions, examinations, and treatments performed
• original itemised invoice from the treatment centre showing the name of the practitioner, type of treatment, treatment date, and price per treatment
• original receipts for all expenses or other documentation showing that and when the expenses were paid

For Helfo to consider the claim and reach a decision, the documentation must be comprehensible. This means that all documentation must initially be in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish or English. You should, therefore, try to get the documentation issued in one of these languages. If the documents are in another language, Helfo can, if necessary, ask you to have them translated. You must pay for the translation yourself. If you send in a translated document, you must also send in the original.

As in Norway, the main rule is that your travel expenses are reimbursed at a standard rate per kilometre regardless of which means of transport you use. You must travel to the geographically closest location where the health service can be provided. Read about user fee and rates.

If appropriate healthcare is not available where you are staying, this must be confirmed by a doctor at that location in order for travel and accommodation expenses connected with your treatment to be reimbursed. The confirmation must include information on the medical necessity of travelling to another town or another country, and the location of the nearest available appropriate healthcare.

If a companion is necessary for medical or treatment-related reasons, this person's travel expenses will also be reimbursable.

In order to be reimbursed, the journey must be longer than ten kilometres each way and cost more than the local minimum fare by scheduled public transport. You will have to pay a user fee per journey.

If you are applying for reimbursement of travel costs, use the same form as for claiming your healthcare expenses. The form is available at step 6. 

You must send the application form and documentation to Helfo within 6 months of each treatment date. If you have not settled on the spot but paid later, we calculate the deadline from the payment date.

If your employer has not covered your expenses, you can apply by using our digital form:

If your employer has covered your expenses or is applying on your behalf, a paper form must be used. You can also use a paper form if you cannot apply digitally.  

Send in this form enclosing the required documentation, to Helfo, and remember that the employer must complete item 4 on the application form if they have covered the expenses:

Send the application to: Helfo, Postboks 2415, 3104 Tønsberg

NB!  If you are filling out this form on behalf of a child under the age of 16, be aware that the child's personal information is to be entered. However, the parent/guardian must sign the form.