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25th Knesset · outgoing

National Insurance Law (Amendment – Double Allowances) Bill

Translated from Hebrew: הצעת חוק הביטוח הלאומי (תיקון - כפל קצבאות)

TL;DRThe bill allows recipients of certain allowances (senior citizen's, survivors', disability) to also receive unemployment benefits without full offset from the allowance.

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What does the bill do?

The bill changes the National Insurance Law and the Income Support Law to allow those eligible for various allowances (senior citizen's pension, survivors' benefit, disability allowance, and dependents' supplements) to also receive unemployment benefits, while only part of the unemployment benefits will be offset from the basic allowance and not from the dependents' supplements. The bill also sets that the insured person's eligibility for the benefit will not be reduced as a result of the change. The provision takes effect on January 1, 2023.

Passed preliminary readingFirst plenum vote: May 3, 2023

The votes on this bill

Passed62 for · 0 against · 0 abstained · 58 did not vote
Source: the Knesset's vote record ↗

Coalition 64 seats

LikudFor 5 · Absent 27
ShasFor 5 · Absent 6
United Torah JudaismFor 3 · Absent 4
Religious ZionismFor 2 · Absent 5
NoamAbsent 1

Opposition 56 seats

Yesh AtidFor 23 · Absent 1
Yisrael BeytenuFor 4 · Absent 2
Ra'amFor 5
Hadash–Ta'alFor 4 · Absent 1
LaborFor 3 · Absent 1

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Other bills with a similar name · 2Separate bills (usually different amendments to the same law) - not readings of this bill.