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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 monetary help to people aged 22 years to age pension age who have capacity to work now or job in the future and prepared to fulfill mutual responsibility requirements.
  
  JSP will include access for individuals who have actually momentarily quit working or studying to recuperate from a health problem or injury however who have a task or research study to return to. When the inability ends, and unless excused from mutual obligations 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 vary an existing Job Plan to fulfil the shared commitment requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP entitlement figured out?
  
  JSP is calculated on a day-to-day basis and job is paid in financial obligations, typically in instalments of 14 days. Instalment durations of less than 2 week may be paid where an individual changes their payday arrangements.
  
  Policy recommendation: SS Guide 8.4 Payment techniques
  
  Supplementary assistance
  
  Recipients getting JSP MAY likewise get several of the following as part of their JSP rate:
  
  - rent 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 likewise be entitled to the following while in invoice of JSP:
  
  - telephone allowance (1.2.7.70). HCC (1.2.8.10) or job PCC (1.2.8.20). LLNS (1.2.7.110) if undertaking training through the Skills for and Employment Program.
  
  Bereavement payment provisions
  
  Following the death of a partner, the enduring member of a couple might be qualified for bereavement payments or a one-off partner bereavement payment
  
  Act reference: SSAct area 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 stopped as part of the production of JSP:
  
  - NSA (1.2.1.10) (ceased on 20 March 2020). SA (1.2.5.30) (near brand-new recipients on 20 March 2020 and job stopped on 20 September 2020). BVA (closed to new receivers on 20 March 2020 and stopped when all existing receivers completed their bereavement duration). WA (1.2.3.30) (near brand-new receivers on 1 July 2018 and ceased on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (closed 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 examined: 20 September 2022
  
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