To a disability pension is entitled 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. who is at least 18 years old, but has not yet reached retirement ageThe age at which you will be entitled to the old-age pension, on condition that your income from work and from other sources does not exceed a certain amount. Income from work pension is not taken into account. Retirement is set at age 67 for men and 62-65, according to birth date, for women., and is disabled due to a physical, intellectual or mental impairment resulting from an illness, accident or birth defect.
Conditions of entitlement to a disability pension
To receive a disability pension one must meet the 4 conditions below:
First condition: Age and residency
You are an Israeli resident, you are between the ages of 18 and retirement age.
Second condition: Income from work
You either do not work or your income as a salaried employee or self-employed person is under 60% of the average wage, i.e. NIS 7,522 (as of Jan 01, 2024).
It is stressed that this condition is reviewed if it is met for 90 consecutive days over the 15 months preceding the date of claim submission.
Please note! A married woman without occupation shall be examined as a housewife, if she did not work for 12 consecutive months or 24 non-consecutive months within the 48 months that preceded the day of submission of her claim for a disability pension or termination of her work - if termination of work occurred after submission of the claim.
Third condition: Medical disability
You were determined, by a physician from the NII, a medical disability degree of at least 60%, or at least 40%, if you have several medical impairments and a medical disability of at least 25% was determined for a single one of them.
Fourth condition: Incapacity degree
It has been established that, due to your disability, you cannot work or your capacity to earn a living has been diminished by at least 50%, and a degree of earning incapacity of 60%, 65%, 74% or 100% has been determined for you.
Disability pension for a housewife
A married woman who did not work for a long while shall be examined under a different track for purposes of receiving a disability pension for a housewife.
Examination under the housewife track is performed if she did not work for 12 consecutive months or 24 non-consecutive months within the 48 months that preceded the day of submission of her claim for a disability pension or termination of her work - if termination of work occurred after submission of the claim.
For more details regarding the conditions of entitlement and examination track for a housewife, click here.