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  1.2.1.05 Jobseeker payment (JSP) - description
  
  What is JSP?
  
  JSP is the working age payment that replaced NSA from 20 March 2020.
  
  JSP is an income support payment that provides monetary help to people aged 22 years to age pension age who have capacity to work now or in the near future and prepared to meet mutual obligation requirements.
  
  JSP will include gain access to for people who have momentarily stopped working or studying to recover from an illness or injury however who have a job or study to go back to. When the incapacity ends, and unless exempted from shared responsibilities requirements (3.11.5), a recipient need to:
  
  - take part in or want to take part in approved activities, and/or job search, and
• be prepared to enter into, adhere to or differ an existing Job Plan to fulfil the shared responsibility requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP entitlement determined?
  
  JSP is determined on an everyday basis and is paid in defaults, typically in instalments of 14 days. Instalment periods of less than 2 week may be paid where an individual modifications their payday plans.
  
  Policy referral: SS Guide 8.4 Payment methods
  
  Supplementary support
  
  Recipients getting JSP MAY likewise get one or more 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).
• 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 enduring member of a couple may 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 referral: 3.1.5 Bereavement payment provisions
  
  Background to JSP
  
  JSP was presented on 20 March 2020. The following payments gradually ceased as part of the creation of JSP:
  
  - NSA (1.2.1.10) (stopped on 20 March 2020). SA (1.2.5.30) (near new receivers on 20 March 2020 and employment stopped on 20 September 2020). BVA (near to brand-new receivers on 20 March 2020 and ceased when all existing receivers completed their bereavement period). WA (1.2.3.30) (near to brand-new recipients on 1 July 2018 and stopped on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (closed to new receivers on 1 July 1995 stopped on 20 March 2020). PA (1.2.2.10) (closed to brand-new recipients on 20 September 2003 stopped on 1 January 2022). WidB (1.2.3.40) (near new receivers on 20 March 1997 ceased on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last reviewed: 20 September 2022
  
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