Are you presently employed by two employers as a salaried employee ?
NOTE: if you are employed by more than two employers, you will need to go to your local Bituach Leumi with a copy of each of your payslips and this article does not apply to you.
If you are earning less than 4,984 shekels gross pay from your main place of employment, you are entitled to pay social security (bituach leumi) and health tax (bituach briut) at the lower rate up to the 4,984 ceiling from deductions from your pay by your secondary employer.
In the past, in order to do this you had to go in to your local social security office and bring with you your teudat zehut and your payslip from both places of employment.
This was a time-consuming process which wasn’t very efficient due to narrow working hours open to the public, usually during the morning and not every day. This required a day off in order to complete.
As of 2010, Social Security instigated the 644 form and warranted employers to accept the employee’s signed declaration in order to configure the social security and health tax deductions accordingly.
Now they have taken it a step further. You can now do the reconciliation on-line on Bituach Leumi’s website. You can also read more about this, as well as download all the forms needed for any number of applications for eligibility for: old age stipends, survivor’s stipends, maternity leave forms, work-related accident forms and more…..
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They even have an English site too.
http://www.btl.gov.il/Pages/default.aspx
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