Are entitled to accident injuries allowance a salaried or self-employed worker, a non-working person and a housewife who meet ALL conditions of entitlement.
Please note that a person in military service, incarcerated, or institutionalized for a medical treatment or long-term care - will not be eligible for accident injuries allowance.
Conditions of entitlement:
First condition: Residency
You are an 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. .
Second condition: Age
You are over 18 years old and have not yet reached retirement age.
Third condition: You have an accident affecting your functioning capacity
You have suffered an accidentAny sudden occurrence in which an outside factor causes physical injury, and loss of ability to function as a result of the injury., either in Israel or abroad, and are unable to function due to this accident.
Functioning level is examined in accordance with your occupational situation:
- Salaried employee - if you are unable to perform your job or any other suitable work, and you do not have any sick days left to utilize.
- Self-employed worker - if you are unable to perform your job or any other suitable work.
Neither salaried nor self-employed individual - if you are hospitalized or in home confinement. - Housewife - if you are unable to perform household tasks.
Please note, if the accident happened during and due to your work, you have to check your eligibility for work-injury benefit, and not accident injury benefit.
Fourth condition: Medical examination
You must undergo a medical examination within 72 hours of the time of the accident.
A person who is not examined within 72 hours of the time of the accident, since the medical prejudice caused by the injury has been discovered within 2 weeks of the accident, you may be entitled to accident injury benefit, upon approval of the NII.
Fifth condition: You are not entitled to an other compensation
You will receive accident benefits only if you are not entitled to any other payment from an other entity, with respect to the period of loss of work or functioning capacity. For instance: sick pay from employer, payment according to Road Accident Victims Compensation Law, or based on work agreement and the like.
Please note that a compensation from an insurance company for a private accident will not adversely affect the entitlement to an accident injury benefit, and it is possible to receive simultaneously an accident injury benefit as well as a payment from an insurance company.