Mobility - Conditions of entitlement for all benefits in the mobility branch

A person with limited mobility is entitled to benefits in this branch

A person with “limited mobility” is someone who meets the following two conditions:

1.   He is a resident of Israel who is located in Israel, who is at least 3 years old but has not yet reached retirement age (the National Insurance Institute also authorizes mobility allowance to two or more siblings, each of whom for which a limited mobility disability of at least 80% was established and who live in the same apartment, even if they are not yet 3 years old).

      There may be continued entitlement even after retirement age for a person who received a mobility allowance before reaching this age, subject to the conditions of the Mobility Agreement.

2.   A medical committee or a medical appeals committee of the Ministry of Health has established the percentage of his limited mobility due to an impairment in his legs, according to a list of defined impairments.

The age at which you will be entitled to the old-age pension, on condition that your income from work and from other sources does not exceed a certain amount. Income from work pension is not taken into account. This age is not uniform for everybody; it is determined in accordance with gender and date of birth.

Israeli resident living in Israel, aged over 3 but not over the retirement age as defined in law for men (see definition and table in “General Definitions”), in whose case a medical committee has determined a percentage of mobility limitation on account of impairment in the lower limbs, according to a specified list of impairments; Under certain conditions, a person with mobility limitation may be entitled to continue to receive mobility benefits after he has reached the above-mentioned retirement age as defined in law for men.