National Insurance Law (Amendment – Unemployment Benefits for the Self-Employed) Bill
Translated from Hebrew: הצעת חוק הביטוח הלאומי (תיקון - דמי אבטלה לעצמאים)
TL;DRA bill to extend unemployment benefit rights to self-employed workers, including running a separate insurance branch and setting conditions for payment.
Translated from Hebrew
What does the bill do?
The bill changes the National Insurance Law to give self-employed workers who have closed their business eligibility for unemployment benefits, under certain conditions. The National Insurance Institute will maintain a separate unemployment insurance branch for the self-employed, and will fund it from the insurance contributions it collected from them. The payment to an unemployed self-employed person will be calculated based on their income in the last 24 months, but will not exceed four maximum payment periods over their entire lifetime, and there must be a break of at least three years between consecutive payment periods.
The votes on this bill
Coalition 68 seats
Left the coalition 8 seats
Opposition 44 seats
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