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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 income assistance payment that provides financial support to individuals aged 22 years to age pension age who have capability to work now or employment in the near future and prepared to satisfy mutual responsibility requirements.
  
  JSP will consist of gain access to for individuals who have briefly quit working or studying to recuperate from an illness or injury however who work or study to return to. When the inability ends, and unless excused from mutual responsibilities requirements (3.11.5), a recipient must:
  
  - take part in or want to get involved in approved activities, and/or task search, and
• be prepared to get in into, comply with or differ an existing Job Plan to satisfy the mutual commitment requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP entitlement figured out?
  
  JSP is calculated on a day-to-day basis and is paid in arrears, normally in instalments of 14 days. Instalment periods of less than 2 week may be paid where a person changes their payday arrangements.
  
  Policy referral: SS Guide 8.4 Payment approaches
  
  Supplementary help
  
  Recipients getting JSP MAY likewise receive 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 location allowance (1.2.7.80).
• approved program of work supplement (1.2.7.180).
  
  They MAY also be entitled to the following while in invoice 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 Education and Employment Program.
  
  Bereavement payment arrangements
  
  Following the death of a partner, the making it through member of a couple might be qualified for bereavement payments or a one-off partner bereavement payment
  
  Act referral: SSAct area 660LA Ongoing payment for death of partner, area 660LH One-off payment for death of partner
  
  Policy reference: employment SS Guide 3.1.5 Bereavement payment arrangements
  
  Background to JSP
  
  JSP was introduced on 20 March 2020. The following payments progressively ceased as part of the creation 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 (closed to new receivers on 20 March 2020 and stopped when all existing recipients finished their bereavement period). WA (1.2.3.30) (near to new receivers on 1 July 2018 and ceased on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (closed to new recipients on 1 July 1995 stopped on 20 March 2020). PA (1.2.2.10) (near to new receivers on 20 September 2003 stopped on 1 January 2022). WidB (1.2.3.40) (closed to new recipients on 20 March 1997 ceased on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last examined: 20 September 2022
  
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