Your eligibility for the supplement depends on the number of stays abroad during the same year and the amount of days spent there each time.
It is important to notify your local branch of the National Insurance of your departure abroad and each travel of your spouse abroad by completing a form of declaration of departure abroad. This form can be sent to the handling branch directly by means of the document delivery service on the website.
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) and for three stays at most during the same year.
Please note:
- For the fourth travel, you will not receive an increment (even if the stay abroad lasted less than 72 days over the three previous travels).
- For the 73rd day and following of stay abroad during the same year, you will not receive an increment.
Denial of eligibility
It is important to know that, in these cases, your eligibility for the payment of an increment of income supplement will be denied for all periods of stay abroad during the same year:
- Staying abroad for a total of 101 days or more, in a single trip or several trips in the same year.
- A travel abroad for the fifth time in the same year.
If your eligibility is denied after you had already received a payment for previous periods in the same year, you will have to return the money you have received.
Calculation of periods of stay abroad
- We will count neither the day of departure nor the day of return.
- We will not count departures and days of stay abroad that occurred before the starting date of entitlement to a increment of income supplement.
Spouses
- 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 will not be taken into account in the calculation of the number of exits for that calendar year, at the discretion of the National Insurance.