Before you travel abroad, it is important that you carefully read the explanations presented hereafter regarding your entitlement to an income supplement during your stay abroad.
During your stay abroad you can continue to receive an income supplement for up to 72 days at most (consecutive or not consecutive) in one calendar year (January 1 through December 31).
Your eligibility for the supplement depends on the number of stays abroad and the amount of days spent there each time.
Please note:
Staying abroad for 100 days or more in a single trip or several trips in the same year, or travelling abroad for the fifth time in the same year - will result in the loss of your entitlement to the income supplement for the periods of stay abroad during that year (from January 1 to December 31). If you have already received that year a payment for previous periods, you will be forced to return the money you have received.
Following are the guidelines to receiving an income supplement while staying abroad:
On the first, second and third trip in the same year
You may be entitled to a supplement according to the following criteria:
- A person will be eligible for a supplement if he or she stayed abroad less than 72 days altogether over the course of one or more trips in the same year. The supplement will be paid for the entire period of stay abroad.
- A person will be eligible for a supplement if he or stayed abroad more than 72 days but less than 100 days altogether over the course of one or more trips in the same year. The supplement will be paid for the period up to the 1st of the month in which the 72 days abroad were accumulated for the year. From that date on, the person will not be entitled to the supplement. The supplement's payment will be renewed on the 1st of the month in which the person returned to Israel from his or her last trip abroad.
- A person's eligibility for a supplement will be revoked for the period of his or her duration abroad if he or she stayed abroad for 100 days or more over the course of one or more trips in the same year, and if they had already received payment for previous periods that year, will be forced to return the money. The supplement's payment will be renewed on the 1st of
the month in which the person returned to Israel from his or her last
trip abroad.
On the fourth trip in the same year
You will not be eligible. Payment will discontinue on the 1st of the month in which the recipient left the country for the fourth time.
- If you stayed abroad for less than 100 days altogether over the course of one or more trips in the same year, your supplement will be stopped on the 1st of the month of exit, and renewed on the 1st of
the month following the return to Israel from the last trip abroad.
- Your eligibility for a supplement will be revoked for each and every period you were abroad if they spent 100 days or
more abroad in a year, and
you will be forced to return the money received for the three previous trips that year.
Payment of the supplement will resume the 1st of the month following your return in Israel from your last trip that year.
On the fifth trip in the same year
Your eligibility to receive a supplement for all periods of stay abroad for all your travels that year will be denied, and you will be forced to return to the National Insurance Institute the money received as supplement for previous periods in that year.
Please note:
In calculating periods spent abroad:
- The day of exit and entry will not be taken into account;
- The periods spent abroad prior to one becoming eligible for the supplement will not be taken into account. If one's eligibility for the income supplement was revoked during his or her stay abroad, those days will be taken into account, and the person will not be eligible to a supplement until the end of that calendar year.
Income supplement to the pension recipient's spouse
- Spouses who have travelled and returned together - the number of days they have spent abroad as well as the number of their exits are counted only once.
- Spouses who have travelled and returned separately, and have not spent a day of stay together abroad - the number of days they have spent abroad as well as their number of exits is counted for each one independently, in other words, every exit made by one of them is counted as one exit.
- When a couple is ineligible for an income supplement because one of the spouses stays abroad - the eligibility of the spouse who stayed in Israel will be examined as a single person.
Travelling abroad for grieving
If a person goes abroad due to the death of an immediate family member (a spouse, parent, child, or sibling) for a maximum of 3 weeks, this exit may, at the NII discretion, not be taken into account in the calculation of the number of exits for that calendar year.
Travelling abroad to receive medical treatment
If a person travels abroad in order to receive a medical treatment that is impossible to receive in Israel, or to accompany an ill family member for purposes of receiving such a medical treatment, and has been granted an exit authorization by the Ministry of Health, he or she will continue to receive the income supplement while staying abroad, though for not more than 6 months.
You are required to notify your local branch of the National Insurance Institute about any of your exit abroad, and if you are married, to notify, too, about your spouse's travel abroad.