Maternity Allowance - How to submit the claim

In order to receive the maternity allowance, you must fill out a maternity allowance claim form and submit it (in person or by mail) to the National Insurance Institute branch closest to your place of residence, along with certification of the birth from the hospital.

A salaried employee must ask her employer to certify, on the form, the details of the  months she worked and her salary during the 10 months before she stopped working (if she worked for several employers, she must attach a form from each one of them).

If the employee did not receive a full salary in the three months preceding the day she stopped working (due to illness, an accident, a strike or reasons beyond her control), she must specify in a separate letter when and why she did not receive her full salary, and she must attach the appropriate authorizations from a doctor / employer.

A self-employed woman must enter on the form the date she stopped working as self-employed and the branch of the National Insurance Institute at which she pays her insurance contributions.

A woman who was undergoing vocational training or vocational rehabilitation in the three months preceding the first of the month in which she stopped working (whether as a salaried employee or self-employed) must submit to the claims clerk authorization from the Ministry of Health or the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor regarding the location and time of the training or rehabilitation.

A soldier who left military service must submit to the claims clerk her reserve duty booklet or a certificate of release from the IDF.

Please note:

Some employers have an arrangement with the National Insurance Institute whereby they transfer claims for the maternity allowance for an employee directly to the NII, and the employee does not have to submit the claim. These employers include the Ministry of Education, the Amal network and MDA.

In these cases, the payment is transferred directly to the bank account into which the child allowance is transferred and, for a first birth, into the bank account provided to the hospital.