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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 offers monetary support to individuals aged 22 years to age pension age who have capability to work now or in the near future and employment prepared to fulfill mutual commitment requirements.
  
  JSP will consist of access for individuals who have temporarily quit working or studying to recover from an illness or injury however who have a job or study to return to. When the inability ends, and unless exempted from shared commitments requirements (3.11.5), a recipient should:
  
  - take part in or be prepared to take part in authorized activities, and/or task search, and
• be prepared to enter into, abide by or differ an existing Job Plan to fulfil the mutual commitment requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP privilege identified?
  
  JSP is computed on a daily basis and is paid in arrears, normally in instalments of 14 days. Instalment durations of less than 2 week might be paid where a person modifications their payday arrangements.
  
  Policy recommendation: SS Guide 8.4 Payment techniques
  
  Supplementary assistance
  
  Recipients getting JSP MAY likewise receive several of the following as part of their JSP rate:
  
  - lease 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 also be entitled to the following while in 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 eligible 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 death of partner
  
  Policy reference: SS Guide 3.1.5 Bereavement payment arrangements
  
  Background to JSP
  
  JSP was introduced on 20 March 2020. The following payments gradually stopped as part of the creation of JSP:
  
  - NSA (1.2.1.10) (stopped on 20 March 2020). SA (1.2.5.30) (closed to brand-new receivers on 20 March 2020 and stopped on 20 September 2020). BVA (closed to new receivers on 20 March 2020 and ceased when all existing receivers finished their bereavement duration). WA (1.2.3.30) (near brand-new receivers on 1 July 2018 and stopped on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (closed to new receivers on 1 July 1995 ceased 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) (closed to brand-new receivers on 20 March 1997 stopped on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last reviewed: 20 September 2022
  
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