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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 individuals aged 22 years to age pension age who have capability to work now or in the future and prepared to meet mutual responsibility requirements.
  
  JSP will include access for people who have actually momentarily stopped working or studying to recuperate from a health problem or injury however who work or study to go back to. When the inability ends, and unless excused from shared commitments requirements (3.11.5), a recipient need to:
  
  - take part in or want to take part in approved activities, and/or task search, and
• be prepared to enter into, comply with or vary an existing Job Plan to satisfy the shared obligation requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP entitlement identified?
  
  JSP is computed on a daily basis and is paid in financial obligations, typically in instalments of 14 days. Instalment durations of less than 14 days may be paid where an individual changes their payday arrangements.
  
  Policy reference: SS Guide 8.4 Payment techniques
  
  Supplementary support
  
  Recipients getting JSP MAY likewise receive several 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 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 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 undertaking training through the Skills for Education and Employment Program.
  
  Bereavement payment provisions
  
  Following the death of a partner, the making it through member of a couple might be eligible for bereavement payments or a one-off partner bereavement payment
  
  Act referral: SSAct section 660LA Ongoing payment for death of partner, area 660LH One-off payment for 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 stopped 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 recipients on 20 March 2020 and stopped on 20 September 2020). BVA (closed to brand-new recipients on 20 March 2020 and ceased when all completed their bereavement duration). WA (1.2.3.30) (closed to new recipients on 1 July 2018 and ceased on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (closed to new recipients on 1 July 1995 ceased on 20 March 2020). PA (1.2.2.10) (near to brand-new receivers on 20 September 2003 stopped on 1 January 2022). WidB (1.2.3.40) (closed to new recipients on 20 March 1997 stopped on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last examined: employment 20 September 2022
  
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