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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 support payment that provides monetary support to individuals aged 22 years to age pension age who have capability to work now or in the near future and prepared to fulfill mutual obligation requirements.
  
  JSP will consist of access for people who have actually briefly stopped working or studying to recover from a disease or injury but who have a job or study to return to. When the incapacity ends, and unless excused from shared obligations requirements (3.11.5), a recipient must:
  
  - take part in or be willing to take part in authorized activities, and/or task search, and
• be prepared to enter into, comply with or differ an existing Job Plan to fulfil the mutual responsibility requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP entitlement figured out?
  
  JSP is calculated on a day-to-day basis and is paid in defaults, typically in instalments of 14 days. Instalment durations of less than 14 days might be paid where an individual modifications their payday plans.
  
  Policy recommendation: SS Guide 8.4 Payment approaches
  
  Supplementary help
  
  Recipients getting JSP MAY likewise 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 likewise 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 undertaking training through the Skills for Education and Employment Program.
  
  Bereavement payment arrangements
  
  Following the death of a partner, the surviving member of a couple may be qualified for bereavement payments or a one-off partner bereavement payment
  
  Act referral: SSAct section 660LA Ongoing payment for employment death of partner, area 660LH One-off payment for death of partner
  
  Policy referral: SS Guide 3.1.5 Bereavement payment provisions
  
  Background to JSP
  
  JSP was presented on 20 March 2020. The following payments gradually stopped 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 receivers on 20 March 2020 and ceased on 20 September 2020). BVA (closed to brand-new recipients on 20 March 2020 and stopped when all existing recipients finished their bereavement duration). 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 new receivers 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) (near to new receivers on 20 March 1997 stopped on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last evaluated: 20 September 2022
  
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