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Home address stops Valgerður’s maternity pay

An Icelandic woman who lives in Iceland but works for an Oslo-based business experienced the cross border commuter’s nightmare. Despite contributing to Norway’s national insurance fund since 2003, she receives no maternity pay. She doesn’t even know who will pay the hospital bill for when she gave birth to her son. Neither Norway nor Iceland wants to pay.
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Valgerður Þórdís Snæbjarnardóttir works for the travel agency Islandia Travel in Norway. She has one son, Róbert Aron Larssen, who is just under nine months old, together with her Norwegian partner.

Snæbjarnardóttir earned 10,000 Norwegian kroner a month as a travel consultant at the travel agency, but has not received any maternity pay since she had her baby because the Norwegian national insurance fund refuses to pay her. 

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