TR will host a streamed seminar on pensions on Wednesday 13 March from 16.00 – 17.30. The seminar title is Everything about old-age pensions – it doesn’t have to be complicated. The meeting will cover everything related to applications for old-age pensions from TR, payment arrangements and more.

On 1 July the amendment to the national travel costs regulation will take effect. The amendment means that the general right to receive travel costs will be four trips per calendar year.

Remotely Piloted Aircrafts will be used for monitoring by the Directorate of Fisheries in July and we would like to ask fishermen to keep in mind that all recordings are carefully examined and fish that goes overboard is species analyzed.

As has become traditional in recent years, various events will take place in forests throughout Iceland during Midsummer under the title Líf í lundi or "Life in a grove" as you might put it in English.

Line discount for ling will open again June 1st but will be closed on June 2nd. Longline discount in cod will stay closed.

Árný Guðmundsdóttir resigns as Head of the Division of Interpretation

It is noted that the average age for pensioners is 67 years old, but if an individual waits to apply for a pension beyond that time, then they can apply for their right up to two years back. If an individual does not apply for his/her right back in time, then his/her rights have not been cancelled, but he/she will enjoy a permanent increase in his/her rights in return for the time that the pension has been deferred. In addition, an early retirement pension can be applied for from 65 years old, in return for a permanent reduction in rights.

The latest issue of EPI ICE touches on increased rates of measles, pertussis and mumps as well as Mycoplasma infections following the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Directorate of Health wishes to hire a specialist to work in the Division of Communicable Disease Control with an emphasis on infection prevention.

Hollvinir - Beneficiaries of Akureyri Hospital together with the hospital staff are organizing a celebration at Glerártorg on Saturday, November 25th. between 14:00 and 16:00. Such a celebration at Glerártorg has been an annual event since the foundation association 10 years ago, but was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 epidemic.