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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 support payment that supplies financial assistance to individuals aged 22 years to age pension age who have capability to work now or employment in the future and employment prepared to satisfy shared commitment requirements.
  
  JSP will consist of gain access to for individuals who have actually momentarily stopped working or studying to recover from an illness or injury but who work or employment research study to go back to. When the incapacity ends, and unless exempted from shared responsibilities requirements (3.11.5), a recipient should:
  
  - take part in or employment be willing to get involved in authorized activities, and/or employment task search, and
• be prepared to enter into, employment abide by or vary an existing Job Plan to satisfy the shared obligation requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP privilege figured out?
  
  JSP is calculated on a daily basis and is paid in financial obligations, typically in instalments of 2 week. Instalment periods of less than 14 days might be paid where an individual modifications their payday plans.
  
  Policy reference: SS Guide 8.4 Payment approaches
  
  Supplementary support
  
  Recipients receiving JSP MAY also get several 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).
• authorized 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 undertaking training through the Skills for Education and Employment Program.
  
  Bereavement payment arrangements
  
  Following the death of a partner, employment the surviving member of a couple may be eligible for bereavement payments or a one-off partner bereavement payment
  
  Act referral: SSAct section 660LA Ongoing payment for death of partner, area 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 ceased as part of the production of JSP:
  
  - NSA (1.2.1.10) (ceased 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 completed their bereavement period). WA (1.2.3.30) (near brand-new recipients on 1 July 2018 and stopped on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (near to brand-new recipients on 1 July 1995 stopped on 20 March 2020). PA (1.2.2.10) (near new recipients on 20 September 2003 ceased on 1 January 2022). WidB (1.2.3.40) (near to brand-new recipients on 20 March 1997 stopped on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last reviewed: 20 September 2022
  
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