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| Who is Entitled to a Child Allowance? | |
| An insured resident of Israel (and a person living in Israel according to special regulations) who has one or more children | 
| | A child who immigrated to Israel without his/her parents |
| | An individual responsible for a child who is not his/her own child, provided that he/she was appointed either as legal guardian or as the person receiving the allowance. |
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| Conditions of Eligibility | |
The allowance is paid for a child under the age of 18 living in Israel. For a child living abroad, the allowance will be paid for the first 6 months of his stay abroad. For a period exceeding 6 months, the allowance will be paid under the following circumstances: one of the parents was sent abroad by an Israeli employer or is on a Sabbatical leave or is employed by an Israeli employer abroad; the family is living abroad because one of the the family members must undergo medical treatment which is not available in Israel. If the child is not the child of the entitled person, the allowance is paid if this person has supported the child for at least the last 12 months |
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| Claim | |
The claim is submitted by the hospital in which the child was born. For this purpose, the mother must bring her and her spouse’s ID cards to the hospital, and provide the hospital with the number of her bank account. The child allowance is paid on the 20th of each month and is transferred to the bank account of the child’s mother or the joint account of the mother and her spouse. If the mother has a debt to the National Insurance Institute, the Institute is entitled to deduct the debt sum from the allowance sum until the entire debt is cleared. |
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| Rates of Child Allowance | |
The amount of the allowance paid to the family is determined by the number of children in the family. |
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| Study Grant | |
A study grant is a payment made by the National Insurance Institute once a year during the month of August, for families as specified below, that receive a child allowance. The grant is paid for each child 6-14 years of age.
Families entitled to a study grant include those in which a parent is divorced, widowed or single, a parent who receives an income support benefit separately from his/her spouse and under certain circumstances, also a parent living apart from his/her spouse, abandoned wife (aguna) and also woman residing in a shelter for battered women.
Families with four or more children are also entitled to a study grant, on the condition that one of the parents receives one of the following benefits from the National Insurance Institute: income support , alimony, disability, old-age or survivors’ pension.
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