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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 offers financial help to people aged 22 years to age pension age who have capacity to work now or in the future and prepared to meet shared responsibility requirements.
  
  JSP will consist of gain access to for individuals who have actually temporarily quit working or studying to recuperate from a disease or injury but who have a job or research study to go back to. When the inability ends, and unless exempted from shared responsibilities requirements (3.11.5), a recipient should:
  
  - take part in or be willing to participate in authorized activities, and/or task search, and
• be prepared to participate in, abide by or differ an existing Job Plan to fulfil the mutual commitment requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP entitlement identified?
  
  JSP is calculated on a daily basis and is paid in financial obligations, normally in instalments of 14 days. Instalment periods of less than 2 week may be paid where an individual changes their payday plans.
  
  Policy reference: employment SS Guide 8.4 Payment methods
  
  Supplementary support
  
  Recipients receiving JSP MAY likewise 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).
• 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 provisions
  
  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 recommendation: SSAct area 660LA Ongoing payment for death of partner, area 660LH One-off payment for employment death of partner
  
  Policy referral: SS Guide 3.1.5 Bereavement payment arrangements
  
  Background to JSP
  
  JSP was introduced 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 new on 20 March 2020 and ceased on 20 September 2020). BVA (near to new receivers on 20 March 2020 and employment stopped when all existing receivers completed their bereavement duration). WA (1.2.3.30) (near new receivers on 1 July 2018 and stopped on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (closed to brand-new receivers on 1 July 1995 stopped on 20 March 2020). PA (1.2.2.10) (near new recipients on 20 September 2003 stopped on 1 January 2022). WidB (1.2.3.40) (near new receivers on 20 March 1997 stopped on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last reviewed: 20 September 2022
  
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