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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 earnings assistance payment that offers monetary help to individuals aged 22 years to age pension age who have capacity to work now or in the near future and prepared to fulfill mutual responsibility requirements.
  
  JSP will include access for individuals who have momentarily stopped working or studying to recover from a health problem or injury but who work or research study to return to. When the inability ends, and unless exempted from shared responsibilities requirements (3.11.5), a recipient need to:
  
  - take part in or be prepared to take part in approved activities, and/or task search, and
• be to get in into, abide by or differ an existing Job Plan to satisfy the shared commitment requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP entitlement identified?
  
  JSP is calculated on an everyday basis and employment is paid in financial obligations, typically in instalments of 2 week. Instalment periods of less than 2 week may 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 one or more 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 location allowance (1.2.7.80).
• approved 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, employment the making it through member of a couple may be eligible for bereavement payments or a one-off partner bereavement payment
  
  Act referral: SSAct section 660LA Ongoing payment for death of partner, section 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 progressively ceased as part of the development 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 (near to new receivers on 20 March 2020 and ceased when all existing receivers completed their bereavement period). WA (1.2.3.30) (near brand-new receivers on 1 July 2018 and ceased on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (near to new receivers on 1 July 1995 ceased on 20 March 2020). PA (1.2.2.10) (near to brand-new recipients on 20 September 2003 stopped on 1 January 2022). WidB (1.2.3.40) (near to brand-new receivers on 20 March 1997 ceased on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last examined: 20 September 2022
  
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