חוק קצבאות שאירים של משרתי שירות הקבע ושירות המדינה וגמלאיהם (תיקוני חקיקה), התשפ"ו-2026Survivors' Allowances of Career Service and Civil Service Personnel and Their Pensioners Law (legislative amendments), 2026 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Law makes several amendments regarding the eligibility of survivors for a pension under the budgetary pension arrangement pursuant to the Permanent Service in the Israel Defense Forces (Pensions) Law and the State Service (Pensions) Law: A. The Law repeals the provision that terminated the eligibility of widowers and widows or former spouses for a survivors' pension due to their remarriage. B. The Law repeals restrictions that applied in cases where, due to the death, the survivors were eligible both for the survivors' pension under the budgetary pension arrangement and for benefits under rehabilitation laws, including the Families of Soldiers Killed in Action (Pensions and Rehabilitation) Law or the Compensation for Victims of Hostile Actions Law (including restrictions on receiving pension and benefits together, a cap on the total amount of benefits and pension, and a restriction on eligibility for a survivors' pension for a spouse who has no child and has not yet reached age 35). This will enable survivors of those who fell in Israel's campaigns and those who died from hostile action, who during their lifetime served in permanent service or worked in state service or were pensioners from such service, to receive both the survivors' pension and the benefits from the Ministry of Defense or from the National Insurance Institute. C. The Law increases the total amount of the pension for all survivors (the maximum rate or the extreme rate) so that it will equal the full determining salary that the active person had, or the full pension paid to the pensioner. The Law's provisions also apply to survivors of a person who died before the Law's entry into force (18 January 2026), with respect to payments from that point onward. If, at dates close to the Law's commencement, a grant is paid due to remarriage or due to age below 35, an adjustment will be made to the commencement date of payments and the completion of amounts for calculating the grant. A transitional provision was also established allowing a person who did not apply to receive a survivors' pension due to the restrictions that applied, to apply now despite the limitation period. The amendments will also apply with respect to survivors of reserve soldiers entitled to payments under the Payment of Pensions to Reserve Soldiers and Their Families Law, 2002.

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