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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 assistance payment that provides monetary help 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 commitment requirements.
  
  JSP will consist of access for individuals who have actually temporarily quit working or studying to recuperate from a health problem or injury however who work or research study to go back to. When the inability ends, and unless excused from shared obligations requirements (3.11.5), a recipient must:
  
  - take part in or want to take part in authorized activities, m1bar.com and/or job search, and
• be prepared to participate in, comply with or vary an existing Job Plan to satisfy the shared obligation requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP privilege determined?
  
  JSP is calculated on an everyday basis and is paid in defaults, normally in instalments of 2 week. Instalment durations of less than 2 week might be paid where a person changes their payday arrangements.
  
  Policy reference: SS Guide 8.4 Payment methods
  
  Supplementary assistance
  
  Recipients receiving JSP MAY likewise get one or more of the following as part of their JSP rate:
  
  - rent support (1.2.7.10).
• energy supplement (1.2.7.50).
• pharmaceutical allowance (1.2.7.20).
• remote location 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 carrying out 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 eligible 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 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) (ceased on 20 March 2020). SA (1.2.5.30) (closed to brand-new receivers on 20 March 2020 and ceased on 20 September 2020). BVA (closed to brand-new recipients on 20 March 2020 and ceased when all existing recipients completed their bereavement duration). WA (1.2.3.30) (closed to brand-new recipients on 1 July 2018 and stopped on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (near to new recipients 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) (closed to brand-new recipients on 20 March 1997 ceased on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last evaluated: 20 September 2022
  
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