You worked for six full months (150 days), consecutive or not consecutive, in one of the jobs recognized as vital work, over the course of two years (24 months) from the date that you were discharged from compulsory service.
Those discharged from regular military service during the period from 1.1.19 to 31.12.20 – will be able to accrue the 6 months of preferred work performed within 3 years from the date of discharged, instead of 2 years as prescribed until now.
The job must be full time, as customary at your particular branch of occupation, in general 8 working hours per day.
In any part-time job situation, you must approach the NII branch of your place of residence in order to clarify your eligibility for a grant.
In agricultural work, you can work for at least four months (at least 100 work days) and receive a partial grant.
Vacation days, sick days and reserve service days are not counted as work days, even if you received payment for them from your employer or from the National Insurance Institute. If you served in the reserves in the course of the two years following your discharge from compulsory service, the period for which you may work at vital work will be extended to the length of your cumulative reserve service periods.
If a five days work-week is the norm in your workplace and you worked five days a week, you will be deemed to have worked six days a week for the purpose of calculating the work days.