Unemployment grant for youth

1.   The Employment Service Bureau cannot provide you with work according to the rules.
2.   Completion of a qualifying period.
3.   During the period of your unemployment, participation in vocational training, employment arrangements or another activity offered to you by the Employment Service Bureau.

In order to receive the unemployment grant for the first time, you must submit a claim to the National Insurance Institute branch closest to your place of residence, on the form Claim for Unemployment Benefit.

The unemployment grant is paid for a maximum of 138 days out of the 12 consecutive months in which you are registered as unemployed.

If you are undergoing vocational training, the unemployment grant is paid to you throughout your training, but not after you reach the age of 18.

For the first 5 days of unemployment in every 4 consecutive months, beginning on the 1^st of the month in which the period of unemployment began, no unemployment grant is paid (even if you are undergoing vocational training).

The daily rates of the unemployment grant are calculated as a percentage of your average daily salary during a qualifying period, according to the rate at which you are contributing to your parents’ support.

360 days for which insurance contributions were paid out of 540 days prior to determining date; For daily employee – 300 days as above out of 540; for minor – 100 days for which insurance contributions were paid, out of prior 360 days as above.

If you think you have been harmed by an action of the Employment Service Bureau in connection with your being sent to work, you are entitled to submit an appeal to the chairman of the appeals committee of the Employment Service Bureau Council . You can appeal the decision of the appeals committee to the District Labor Court.

If the Employment Bureau refuses to provide you with authorization of unemployment, you can apply to the claims officer at the National Insurance Institute and submit a claim for unemployment benefit. After the claim is rejected due to the absence of the authorization, you are entitled to apply to the District Labor Court.

If you are dissatisfied with a decision made by the National Insurance Institute, you are entitled to appeal it to the Labor Court. You must submit the appeal to the Labor Court within 6 months from the date on which you received the written notification of the National Insurance Institute’s decision. You can appeal the decision of the District Labor Court to the National Labor Court in Jerusalem.

If your claim for a benefit is denied and you want to appeal the decision to the Labor Court, you are entitled to apply for free legal aid from the legal aid office of the Ministry of Justice in your area of residence. (you must submit the application on a special form).

The legal aid office will check whether you have a cause of action, and will determine whether you will be given free legal aid.

The payments given to you in the vocational training are deducted from the grant that is paid to you, except for reimbursement of travel expenses.