1 1.2.1.05 Jobseeker Payment (JSP) - Description

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  1.2.1.05 Jobseeker payment (JSP) - description
  
  What is JSP?
  
  JSP is the working age payment that replaced NSA from 20 March 2020.
  
  JSP is an income assistance 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 include gain access to for individuals who have briefly stopped working or studying to recuperate from a health problem or employment injury but who have a job or employment research study to go back to. When the incapacity ends, and unless exempted from shared responsibilities requirements (3.11.5), a recipient need to:
  
  - take part in or employment be prepared to take part in activities, and/or job search, and
• be prepared to enter into, adhere to or employment differ an existing Job Plan to satisfy the shared obligation requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP privilege figured out?
  
  JSP is calculated on an everyday basis and is paid in arrears, normally in instalments of 14 days. Instalment durations of less than 14 days may be paid where a person modifications their payday arrangements.
  
  Policy reference: SS Guide 8.4 Payment approaches
  
  Supplementary support
  
  Recipients getting JSP MAY likewise receive several 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 arrangements
  
  Following the death of a partner, employment the surviving member of a couple may be eligible for bereavement payments or employment a one-off partner bereavement payment
  
  Act reference: SSAct section 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 presented on 20 March 2020. The following payments gradually stopped as part of the development of JSP:
  
  - NSA (1.2.1.10) (ceased on 20 March 2020). SA (1.2.5.30) (near brand-new receivers on 20 March 2020 and ceased on 20 September 2020). BVA (closed to brand-new recipients on 20 March 2020 and stopped when all existing receivers finished their bereavement period). WA (1.2.3.30) (near new receivers on 1 July 2018 and ceased on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (closed to new receivers on 1 July 1995 stopped on 20 March 2020). PA (1.2.2.10) (closed to new recipients on 20 September 2003 ceased on 1 January 2022). WidB (1.2.3.40) (closed to brand-new receivers on 20 March 1997 stopped on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last evaluated: 20 September 2022
  
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