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 changed NSA from 20 March 2020.
  
  JSP is an income support payment that provides monetary assistance to individuals aged 22 years to age pension age who have capacity to work now or in the future and prepared to fulfill shared commitment requirements.
  
  JSP will include gain access to for individuals who have momentarily quit working or studying to recover from an illness or injury however who work or research study to go back to. When the inability ends, employment and unless excused from mutual commitments requirements (3.11.5), a recipient must:
  
  - take part in or want to get involved in authorized activities, and/or task search, and
• be prepared to get in into, adhere to or vary an existing Job Plan to fulfil the mutual obligation requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP privilege identified?
  
  JSP is calculated on an everyday basis and is paid in financial obligations, generally in instalments of 14 days. Instalment periods of less than 14 days may be paid where a person changes their payday arrangements.
  
  Policy reference: employment SS Guide 8.4 Payment methods
  
  Supplementary help
  
  Recipients getting JSP MAY also get one or more of the following as part of their JSP rate:
  
  - rent help (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 carrying out 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 may be qualified for bereavement payments or a one-off partner bereavement payment
  
  Act reference: SSAct area 660LA Ongoing payment for employment 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 production of JSP:
  
  - NSA (1.2.1.10) (ceased on 20 March 2020). SA (1.2.5.30) (near to brand-new receivers on 20 March 2020 and stopped on 20 September 2020). BVA (near new recipients on 20 March 2020 and ceased when all existing recipients completed their bereavement period). WA (1.2.3.30) (near to brand-new receivers on 1 July 2018 and ceased on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (near to new recipients on 1 July 1995 ceased on 20 March 2020). PA (1.2.2.10) (near brand-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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