The National Insurance appreciates and gives tribute to Holocaust survivors, and wishes them a long life and strong health.
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day to be marked on the evening of Sunday 5/5/24, and according to data on Holocaust survivors recognized as eligible for National Insurance allowances:
In Israel there are currently 131,166 Holocaust survivors receiving allowances, such as old age, income supplement, long-term care, attendance and survivors.
- 70.7% receive a long-term care benefit and 31.5% receive an old-age pension with income supplement.
- 61.6% are women and 38.4% are men.
- 37.3% of all survivors are married.
- 22.5% are aged 90 and above (29,625 people), compared to only 8.1% of the population aged 90 and above in these ages.
Old-age pension recipients with increment of income supplement
- 31.5% of Holocaust survivors receive an increment of income supplement to old-age pension from the National Insurance, compared to 24% of the population in this age group.
- 41,459 survivors with low income threshold receive income supplement, of which 70.6% are single and 29.4% are married.
- Overall, 32,351 people representing 78% of all survivors currently receive income supplement. Most of those eligible for income supplement (whose financial situation is more difficult, as mentioned above) are 80-89 years old and constitute 24.6% of all survivors.
Long-term care benefit recipients
93,152 survivors, which represent 46.1% of long-term care benefit recipients, are aged 73 and above, and constitute 70.7% of all survivors.
Among them:
- 60,726 are women (65.2%).
- 24,673 are aged 90+ (26.5%).