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  1.2.1.05 Jobseeker payment (JSP) - description
  
  What is JSP?
  
  JSP is the working age payment that changed NSA from 20 March 2020.
  
  JSP is an earnings assistance payment that supplies financial assistance to individuals aged 22 years to age pension age who have capacity to work now or in the near future and prepared to fulfill shared obligation requirements.
  
  JSP will include access for people who have briefly quit working or studying to recuperate from a disease or injury but who work or research study to return to. When the incapacity ends, and unless exempted from shared responsibilities requirements (3.11.5), a recipient need to:
  
  - take part in or be prepared to participate in approved activities, job and/or job search, job and
• be prepared to participate in, comply with or job differ an existing Job Plan to satisfy the shared responsibility requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP privilege determined?
  
  JSP is calculated on a daily basis and is paid in financial obligations, generally in instalments of 14 days. Instalment periods of less than 2 week might be paid where an individual changes their payday arrangements.
  
  Policy reference: SS Guide 8.4 Payment techniques
  
  Supplementary help
  
  Recipients getting JSP MAY also get one or more of the following as part of their JSP rate:
  
  - lease assistance (1.2.7.10).
• energy supplement (1.2.7.50).
• pharmaceutical allowance (1.2.7.20).
• remote area allowance (1.2.7.80).
• approved program of work supplement (1.2.7.180).
  
  They MAY also be entitled to the following while in receipt of JSP:
  
  - telephone allowance (1.2.7.70). HCC (1.2.8.10) or PCC (1.2.8.20). LLNS (1.2.7.110) if carrying out training through the Skills for job Education and Employment Program.
  
  Bereavement payment provisions
  
  Following the death of a partner, job the making it through member of a couple might be qualified for bereavement payments or a one-off partner bereavement payment
  
  Act referral: SSAct section 660LA Ongoing payment for death of partner, section 660LH One-off payment for death of partner
  
  Policy reference: SS Guide 3.1.5 Bereavement payment arrangements
  
  Background to JSP
  
  JSP was introduced on 20 March 2020. The following payments gradually stopped as part of the development of JSP:
  
  - NSA (1.2.1.10) (stopped on 20 March 2020). SA (1.2.5.30) (closed to new recipients on 20 March 2020 and stopped on 20 September 2020). BVA (near new receivers on 20 March 2020 and ceased when all existing recipients completed their bereavement duration). WA (1.2.3.30) (near new recipients on 1 July 2018 and stopped on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (near to new receivers on 1 July 1995 ceased on 20 March 2020). PA (1.2.2.10) (closed to brand-new recipients on 20 September 2003 ceased on 1 January 2022). WidB (1.2.3.40) (near new recipients on 20 March 1997 stopped on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last evaluated: 20 September 2022
  
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