Incomes taken into account for examination of entitlement to long-term care benefits


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Your level of income is one of the conditions of entitlement to the long-term care benefit. The entitling amount of income is determined in accordance with your marital status.

Please note, when both spouses require long-term care, incomes are calculated based on the "single" marital status for each spouse individually.

 

Amount of (gross) income
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Amount of benefit

Single

Up to NIS 12,536

Full benefit

Single

Over NIS 12,536 and up to NIS 18,804

Benefit reduced by 50%

​Single​Over NIS 18,804No entitlement to benefit

Couple

Up to NIS 18,804

Full benefit

Couple

Over NIS 18,804 and up to NIS 28,206

Benefit reduced by 50%

Couple​Over NIS 28,206​No entitlement to benefit


Incomes taken into account

  • Gross income from work - as salaried employee or self-employed person
  • Gross income for pension
  • Gross income from NII benefits, such as: old-age pension, general disability, survivors and more.
  • Gross income from a property
  • Any other gross income, under section 2 of Taxes Ordinance, such as: capital gains, linkage and compensations.
  • Allowances (gross amount) to IDF's disabled people (without mobility increment).

Incomes that are not taken into account

  • Income from allowances to victims of Nazi persecutions or Holocaust survivors
  • Income from a private nursing insurance
  • Income from certain NII benefits, such as: mobility, attendance to the severely disabled, compensations to polio or ringworm victims.
  • Mobility benefits from the Ministry of Defense.

Expenses deducted from income

The following expenses are deducted from the amount of your incomes:

  • Court decision on maintenance payments (alimony) - if you bear expenses related to alimony payments ruled by Court, these expenses will be deducted from your overall income during incomes examination.
  • Maintenance Expenses for spouse staying in a nursing institution - if your spouse stays in a nursing institution, related maintenance expenses will be deducted from the overall amount of your incomes.
  • Rents - if you are renting an apartment from a landlord, your rent will be deducted from your incomes. For instance: if you have a rent income of NIS 4,000 as landlord of an apartment and, at the same time, you pay a rent of NIS 3,000 per month as a tenant. In calculating your incomes, only NIS 1,000 from your landlord's rent are taken into account.
  • Expenses for assisted living residence - if you live in an assisted living residence and rent your apartment, your expenses related to the assisted living component will be deducted from your rents income.
    For instance: If you have an income of NIS 4,000 per month from the apartment that you are renting, and pay NIS 6,000 per month for the assisted living residence component - your NIS 4,000 rents income from your apartment will not be accounted in the calculation of income.
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