If you are staying abroad, you are paid a survivors’ pension abroad for up to 3 months.
Your pension will be paid into your bank account in Israel.
If you intend to stay abroad for more than 3 months, you must notify your travel to the Old-Age and Survivors Department of the branch in charge of your file.
Under special circumstances, the National Insurance Institute will continue to pay you the pension during your stay abroad, even after the aforementioned time limits.
You can notify your stay abroad via the website.
Person residing in a convention country
If you live in a convention country, you may receive the pension in that country, even if the deceased was not a resident of Israel at the time of death
For more details, you can contact us through the website.
Survivors residing in the United States
They may receive the pension while in the United States, only if the deceased was a resident of Israel at the time of death, and the survivors received a survivors’ pension under the law before leaving for the United States.
Sending a life certificate
Those staying abroad and receiving a survivors’ pension from the National Insurance, are required once a year to submit a Life Certificate signed by the Consulate / recognized notary / local authority / social institution to the National Insurance Institute in Israel.
Recipients of income supplement who have not yet reached retirement age
They must notify every trip abroad. For each full month (from the first of the month to the 30th or 31st of the month) of stay abroad, they will not be paid an income supplement. If you went abroad more than once in one calendar year (from January to December of that year), on your second departure abroad and on your future departures abroad, the income supplement will not be paid to you for the month in which you went abroad, or for the month in which you returned from abroad.
Recipients of an income supplement who have reached retirement age
They must notify every departure abroad. For the principles related to receiving an income supplement abroad, see principles applicable to recipients of an old-age pension with income supplement.
Women receiving a special survivors benefit abroad
For women receiving a special survivors’ benefit abroad: their continued payment of the special survivors’ benefit will be re-examined according to the period of time spent abroad:
- Recipients of a special survivors’ benefit who go abroad temporarily but remain residents of Israel continue to receive the benefit for the month of departure and for one calendar month only after this month. After this date, the payment of the benefit shall be terminated. The benefit is renewed at the discretion of the National Insurance Institute during the month in which you return to Israel.
- If you are receiving a special survivors’ benefit and you stay abroad for a prolonged period of time, the benefit will be terminated from the month in which you went abroad. The benefit is renewed only if you are recognized as a resident of Israel.