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Non-Workers and Non-Self-Employed

  Definition / Conditions
  Payment Obligations
  Eligibility for Benefits
  How to Register and Pay
  Rates of Insurance Contributions
Definition / Conditions
An Israeli resident who is not working and has no income, not including women married to insured persons who are residents of Israel.
Payment Obligations

You must pay your own insurance contributions.

Eligibility for Benefits
Non-workers and non-self-employed persons may be eligible for the following benefits:

maternity (except for wage-replacing benefits: maternity allowance and risk pregnancy benefit), children, maintenance (alimony), survivors, family of a person deceased due to a work accident, family of a person deceased due to hostile action, long-term care, reserve duty, radiation-affected persons, persons with transfusion-acquired HIV, accident-injured persons, disability, attendance allowance, mobility, persons injured while volunteering, old-age pension, income support, hostile action casualties, prisoners of Zion.

How to Register and Pay                
You must report your non-worker status in the multi-annual report to your local National Insurance branch.

Once the report is received at the National Insurance Institute, the Institute will send you insurance contribution payment vouchers within 3 weeks. Insurance contributions must be paid quarterly, in one of the following ways:

                
Rates of Insurance Contributions
The basis for payment of national insurance contributions is 15% of the average wage - NIS 1,293 (as of 01.01.2012) .

The rate of national insurance contributions is % 4.61 (as of 07.01.2002) of the basis.

The minimal monthly health insurance contribution is NIS 100.00 (as of 01.01.2012) .

For a table summarizing insurance rates and amounts – click here.

 
 
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