Survivors - Survivors’ Grant

A survivors’ grant is paid in the following cases:

     To a widow or widower below the age of 40, who has a child.

     To a widower who received a survivors’ pension as a widower with a child, but the child no longer meets the criterion to be deemed a child and the widower is no loner entitled to continued payment of the survivors’ pension because of his high income.

The grant is a lump sum payment, and terminates entitlement to a monthly survivors’ pension.

However, if a widower who does not have a child and received a survivors’ pension due to his low income, but later his income increased to more than the maximum income threshold, his entitlement to the survivors’ pension terminates and he receives the survivors’ grant.

If, in the future, his income drops below the maximum income threshold, his entitlement to a monthly survivors’ pension will be reexamined.

If a survivors’ pension is approved for him, the survivors’ grant that he received is deducted from the survivors’ pension.

Rate of the grant - the amount of 36 monthly pension payments.

Wife of insured man at the time of his death, had been married to him for at least a year (six months for woman aged 55 and over), or has borne him a child.

Husband of insured woman at the time of her death, had been married to her for at least a year (six months for man aged 55 and over), if he has child living with him or has passed a means test.

The son or daughter of an insured person (including foster child, adopted child and grandchild supported entirely by the insured person, except for a married child) who meets one of the following conditions: *up to age 18; *if completing his studies at a post-elementary educational institution or studying in a framework to complete matriculation exams, or having a learning disability and studying in a framework recognized by the NII– up to age 20; *if in a pre-army IDF framework – up to age 20;* if a volunteer in a framework of public service for up to 12 months and his army service is deferred due to this volunteering – up to age 21; *if serving compulsory service in the IDF – up to age 24; *if serving in the voluntary National Service – up to age 24;*if studying in an "atuda" framework and deferring army service due to studies – up to age 24.