If you are staying abroad, you are paid the survivors’ pension abroad for a maximum of 6 months, and if you went abroad on or after August 1, 2009, the survivors pension will be paid to you abroad for up to 3 months.
Your pension will be paid into your bank account in Israel.
If you intend to stay abroad for more than 3 months, you must notify the National Insurance Institute (Old Age and Survivors Department) of your trip in writing. Under special circumstances, the National Insurance Institute will continue to pay you the pension during your stay abroad, even after the aforementioned time limits.
If you live in a convention country, you may receive the pension in that country, even if the deceased was not a resident of Israel at the time of death (detailed information can be obtained from the Old Age and Survivors Department at the head office in Jerusalem). Survivors living in the United States may receive the pension while in the United States, only if the deceased was a resident of Israel at the time of death, and the survivors received a survivors’ pension under the law before leaving for the United States.
If you are staying abroad and receiving a survivors’ pension from the National Insurance Institute, please note: once a year you are required to submit a Life Certificate to the National Insurance Institute in Israel.
Recipients of an income supplement who have not yet reached retirement age must give notice of every trip abroad. For each full month (from the first of the month to the 30th or 31st of the month) that you are abroad, you will not be paid the income supplement.
If you went abroad more than once in one calendar year (from January to December), on your second departure abroad and on your future departures abroad, the income supplement will not be paid to you for the month in which you went abroad, or for the month in which you returned from abroad.
Recipients of an income supplement who have reached retirement age must give notice of every departure abroad. As of January 1, 2007, the income supplement is paid to those who have reached retirement age, even for periods they spend abroad, provided they went abroad no more than 3 times in one calendar year (from January to December) and for a maximum period of 72 days (consecutive or cumulative) in one calendar year.
If you go abroad more than 3 times in one calendar year, or stay abroad for more than 72 days in one calendar year, you will not be paid the income supplement for the entire period that you spend abroad during that calendar year, including the month of your departure and the month of your return from abroad.
Women receiving a special survivors’ benefit abroad: Your continued entitlement to payment of the special survivors’ benefit will be re-examined according to the period of time you spend abroad:
Recipients of a special survivors’ benefit who go abroad temporarily but remain residents of Israel continue to receive the benefit for the month of departure and for one calendar month only after this month.
The benefit is renewed at the discretion of the National Insurance Institute during the month in which you return to Israel.
If you are receiving a special survivors’ benefit and you stay abroad for a prolonged period of time, the benefit will be terminated from the month in which you went abroad. The benefit is renewed only if you are recognized as a resident of Israel.