Staying abroad - Receiving an old-age pension in a convention country

If you are staying abroad in a country that has ratified a social security convention with Israel, you shall receive your old-age pension in that country – in accordance with the law and the regulations of that particular convention.

In order to receive your old-age pension in the convention country, you must follow the following guidelines:

• If you received a pension in Israel and went abroad to a country that has ratified a convention with Israel – you may continue to receive your pension in theconvention country, even if you are no longer an Israeli resident. In order to continue to receive your pension, please contact the National Insurance Institute in writing and request to receive your pension in the country in which you are presently living.  Please provide your personal information ­ – writing your address in clear, English letters ­ – as well as the details of your bank account.
  
• If you did not receive a pension in Israel, you went abroad to a country that has ratified a convention with Israel and you reached retirement age while abroad, you may be entitled to an old-age pension, even if you ceased being an Israeli resident. You should send a claim form for old-age pension to the National Insurance Institute, and attach the following documents: a bank authorization with details of your bank account and the address of the bank, your exact home address in clear, English letters, a "certificate of life" signed by the consulate/ authorized notary/local authority/social security institute in your country of residence, a declaration of your income and the income of your spouse.

Providing a certificate of life to the National Insurance Institute
Persons who reside abroad and receive an old-age pension from the National Insurance Institute are required to provide a "Certificate of Life" to the Institute.  

Changing residence
If you change your place of residence from one convention country abroad to another – for example, from Britain to France – your entitlement to the old-age pension will be re-examined in accordance with the convention of the country in which you presently reside.

 If you change your place of residence from a convention country to a country with which Israel has no convention, your entitlement to the old-age pension will be examined according to the rules of continued payment of pension.  

A person whose life is centered in Israel. Among the criteria for determining residence in this context: permanent place of residence, place at which the family is staying, place of the children's education, main place of work, place of learning.