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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 earnings assistance payment that offers monetary assistance to people 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 people who have actually temporarily stopped working or employment studying to recover from a disease or injury but who have a job or study to go back to. When the incapacity ends, and unless excused from mutual responsibilities requirements (3.11.5), a recipient need to:
  
  - take part in or want to get involved in authorized activities, and/or task search, and
• be to get in into, adhere to or differ an existing Job Plan to satisfy the shared commitment requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP privilege figured out?
  
  JSP is computed on a day-to-day basis and is paid in defaults, typically in instalments of 2 week. Instalment durations of less than 2 week may be paid where an individual changes their payday plans.
  
  Policy referral: SS Guide 8.4 Payment methods
  
  Supplementary support
  
  Recipients getting JSP MAY likewise receive several 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 location allowance (1.2.7.80).
• authorized program of work supplement (1.2.7.180).
  
  They MAY also be entitled to the following while in receipt of JSP:
  
  - telephone allowance (1.2.7.70). HCC (1.2.8.10) or employment PCC (1.2.8.20). LLNS (1.2.7.110) if undertaking training through the Skills for Education and Employment Program.
  
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