Grants and benefits

Initially, you will automatically receive the following payments:

1. Organization grant  

• A one-time grant of NIS 10,000 on a prepaid card - given in hospitals upon arrival in the country.
• A one-time grant of NIS 50,000 paid to you on 1.7.24 automatically on your bank account.

2. Medical treatment benefit 

• The benefit will be paid automatically to your bank account for the period from 7.10.23  until  30.5.24.
• Hostages who returned to work in the months of April and May or whose employers paid them a wage for these months - will not receive a medical treatment benefit, but an advance payment of NIS 2,755 each month, taken from the disability pension to which you are entitled.
• Hostages who returned and receive medical treatments, which prevent them to be at work - need to submit a claim for medical treatment benefit to let us examine the continuation of their rights to a benefit from January 2024 onwards.

Benefit amount (as of Jan 01, 2024):

Important information!

• Anyone who worked before the hostile action - and wants us to calculate the medical treatment benefit according to his income, should submit an application to his handling social worker.
• Anyone whose employer continued to pay him a salary during the period of captivity - and wants the benefit to be paid directly to the employer, shall fill out a manual claim for medical treatment benefit that includes an employer's demand for a refund, and we'll be able to examine the possibility of transferring the benefit to the employer.
  The claim must be handed over to the handling rehabilitation worker.

Please note, in case of calculating the benefit according to income or paying of the benefit to the employer, the payments that a returned hostage receives will be deducted from the benefit:
 disability payments as a victim of hostile actions, allowances from the National Insurance, under Nazis War Disabled Victims Law, under the Nazi Persecutions Disabled Victims Law, and pensions from IDF's permanent service or from civil service.

3. Travel grant

• For the returned hostage – NIS 1,000 a month, for 3 months.
• For family members of the returned hostage - NIS 2,000 as a one-time payment.

4. Home assistance funding grant  

NIS 4,500 per month for 3 months, for one household (and not according to the number of returnees in the same household).

5. Payment to family member for income loss

A payment to one family member who accompanies the hostage for a period of up to two months since the day of return.

6. Receiving a monthly disability pension

You are entitled to a disability pension at a rate of 50% automatically since the day of recognition as released hostages.

Please note that those wishing to appear before a Medical Board to receive higher percentages of mental or physical disability - can contact the rehabilitation worker who follows them or submit a shortened claim on the website.

7. Monthly payment under of the Prisoners of War Redemption Law

You will receive a monthly benefit or annual grant, depending on your age:

8. Refund for medical expenses

You are entitled to receive a refund for all medical expenses for any medical care not included in the health basket, for 36 months since the day of your recognition as released hostages.