You can be entitled to income support benefit if you have been a Israeli residentA person whose life is centered in Israel. Criteria for determining this include: Israel is your permanent place of residence, where your family resides, where your children go to school, your primary place of work, or where you are studying. for at least 24 consecutive months, provided you meet the other conditions of entitlement.
If you are a Israeli resident for less than 24 consecutive months, you can be entitled to the benefit if you meet one of the following conditions:
- You are a new immigrant who lives in the country for 12 months (even not consecutively), and 5 years did not elapse yet, since you immigrated to Israel. If 5 years have passed since the day of your immigration, you might be eligible only in the following cases: you are a single-parent or you live separately from your spouse, you are ill, pregnant, institutionalized or a recovering alcoholic or drug addict.
- You receive one of the following benefits from the National Insurance Institute: old-age, survivors, work disability, benefit to family members of a person who died following a work injury or a benefit to a volunteer who got injured due to his volunteering activity.
- The spouse meets one of the above conditions.