MPs Simen Velle and Anne Grethe Hauan introduced a private member's bill to exclude compensation payments for serious illness or personal injury—and returns on such payments—from the means-testing calculations used by Lånekassen, the state education loan fund. The Standing Committee on Education and Research recommends that the government return with a solution for students affected by reduced grants due to injury compensation, though the Progress Party supports the original proposal.
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The Storting calls on the government to return to the Storting with an appropriate solution for students who have been affected by the change that reduced their grants due to injury compensation payments.
The Storting calls on the government to amend the education support regulations so that compensation for serious illness or personal injury—and the accrued returns on such compensation—are excluded from Lånekassen's means-testing calculation. For equivalent cases in the past five years where grants were denied and provided as loans instead, those loans should be converted to grants.