{"id":2128,"date":"2025-01-08T12:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T11:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpkstg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2025-01-28T12:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T11:38:34","slug":"refund-of-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpk.no\/en\/2025\/01\/08\/refund-of-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Refund of Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">For those born before 1970 with seagoing service scheme<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Pensionable sea service between 36 and 149 months may, under certain conditions, entitle you to a refund of contributions upon reaching pension age:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">You are not eligible for a refund of contributions if you receive 100% disability pension, work assessment allowance, or public AFP (contractual early retirement pension) from the National Insurance Scheme at pension age. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">It is also a requirement that you must have ceased earning pensionable sea service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">You must remember to apply before turning 67, as the right to a refund of contributions expires at age 67.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">To apply for a refund of contributions, submit your application on the website mpk.no.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">For those born on or after January 1, 1970, or who started working at sea for the first time after January 1, 2020:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">A refund of contributions does not apply in the new scheme. This is because ongoing pensions are provided after three years of service.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those born before 1970 with seagoing service scheme Pensionable sea service between 36 and 149 months may,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}