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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 provides monetary help to individuals aged 22 years to age pension age who have capacity to work now or in the future and prepared to satisfy shared commitment requirements.
  
  JSP will include access for individuals who have briefly stopped working or studying to recover from a health problem or injury but who work or study to return to. When the incapacity ends, and unless exempted from mutual commitments requirements (3.11.5), a recipient need to:
  
  - participate in or want to participate in approved activities, and/or job search, and
• be prepared to participate in, abide by or differ an existing Job Plan to fulfil the mutual obligation requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP privilege figured out?
  
  JSP is computed on a day-to-day basis and is paid in defaults, generally in instalments of 2 week. Instalment durations of less than 2 week might be paid where a person modifications their payday arrangements.
  
  Policy reference: SS Guide 8.4 Payment methods
  
  Supplementary support
  
  Recipients getting JSP MAY also get several of the following as part of their JSP rate:
  
  - rent help (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 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 provisions
  
  Following the death of a partner, the making it through member of a couple may be qualified for bereavement payments or employment a one-off partner bereavement payment
  
  Act reference: SSAct section 660LA Ongoing payment for death of partner, section 660LH One-off payment for death of partner
  
  Policy recommendation: SS Guide 3.1.5 Bereavement payment arrangements
  
  Background to JSP
  
  JSP was presented 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) (near brand-new recipients on 20 March 2020 and stopped on 20 September 2020). BVA (closed to new receivers on 20 March 2020 and ceased when all existing recipients completed their bereavement period). WA (1.2.3.30) (near to new recipients on 1 July 2018 and ceased on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (near to brand-new receivers on 1 July 1995 stopped on 20 March 2020). PA (1.2.2.10) (near to brand-new recipients on 20 September 2003 stopped on 1 January 2022). WidB (1.2.3.40) (near to brand-new receivers on 20 March 1997 stopped on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last examined: 20 September 2022
  
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