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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 support payment that offers financial 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 obligation requirements.
  
  JSP will include gain access to for individuals who have briefly quit working or studying to recuperate from a disease or injury however who have a task or study to go back to. When the incapacity ends, employment and employment unless excused from mutual commitments requirements (3.11.5), a recipient need to:
  
  - take part in or be prepared to take part in approved activities, and/or job search, and
• be prepared to participate in, comply with or vary an existing Job Plan to satisfy the mutual commitment requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP entitlement determined?
  
  JSP is computed on an everyday basis and is paid in defaults, usually in instalments of 2 week. Instalment durations of less than 2 week might be paid where a person changes their payday plans.
  
  Policy recommendation: SS Guide 8.4 Payment approaches
  
  Supplementary assistance
  
  Recipients getting JSP MAY also receive 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 location 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 might be eligible for bereavement payments or a one-off partner bereavement payment
  
  Act recommendation: SSAct area 660LA Ongoing payment for death of partner, section 660LH One-off payment for death of partner
  
  Policy recommendation: 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 production of JSP:
  
  - NSA (1.2.1.10) (ceased on 20 March 2020). SA (1.2.5.30) (near to new receivers on 20 March 2020 and ceased on 20 September 2020). BVA (near to brand-new recipients on 20 March 2020 and stopped when all existing receivers finished their bereavement duration). WA (1.2.3.30) (near new recipients on 1 July 2018 and ceased on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (near new recipients on 1 July 1995 stopped on 20 March 2020). PA (1.2.2.10) (near to brand-new receivers on 20 September 2003 ceased on 1 January 2022). WidB (1.2.3.40) (closed to brand-new recipients on 20 March 1997 stopped on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last examined: 20 September 2022
  
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