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 earnings support payment that provides monetary help to people aged 22 years to age pension age who have capacity to work now or in the near future and prepared to meet shared responsibility requirements.
  
  JSP will consist of gain access to for employment individuals who have briefly quit working or studying to recuperate from an illness or injury however who have a job or research study to return to. When the incapacity ends, and unless excused from mutual commitments requirements (3.11.5), employment a recipient must:
  
  - take part in or want to take part in approved activities, and/or task search, and
• be prepared to participate in, comply with or differ an existing Job Plan to fulfil the shared responsibility requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP entitlement figured out?
  
  JSP is calculated on a day-to-day basis and is paid in financial obligations, typically in instalments of 14 days. Instalment durations of less than 2 week might be paid where a person modifications their payday plans.
  
  Policy recommendation: SS Guide 8.4 Payment methods
  
  Supplementary assistance
  
  Recipients receiving JSP MAY likewise get one or more 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 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 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 employment Education and Employment Program.
  
  Bereavement payment provisions
  
  Following the death of a partner, the surviving member of a couple may be eligible for or a one-off partner bereavement payment
  
  Act reference: SSAct section 660LA Ongoing payment for death of partner, employment 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 creation of JSP:
  
  - NSA (1.2.1.10) (ceased on 20 March 2020). SA (1.2.5.30) (closed to brand-new recipients on 20 March 2020 and stopped on 20 September 2020). BVA (near to new recipients on 20 March 2020 and stopped when all existing receivers completed their bereavement period). WA (1.2.3.30) (closed to new recipients on 1 July 2018 and stopped on 1 January 2022). WP (1.2.3.20) (closed to brand-new recipients 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) (near to new recipients on 20 March 1997 ceased on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last evaluated: 20 September 2022
  
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