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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 offers monetary support to people aged 22 years to age pension age who have capability to work now or in the near future and prepared to satisfy shared obligation requirements.
  
  JSP will consist of gain access to for people who have momentarily stopped working or studying to recuperate from a disease or employment injury however who work or research study to return to. When the incapacity ends, and unless excused from shared obligations requirements (3.11.5), a recipient need to:
  
  - take part in or want to take part in approved activities, and/or task search, and
• be prepared to get in into, adhere to or differ an existing Job Plan to fulfil the mutual responsibility requirements (3.11 ).
  
  How is JSP entitlement identified?
  
  JSP is determined on a day-to-day basis and is paid in arrears, employment usually in instalments of 14 days. of less than 14 days may be paid where a person changes their payday arrangements.
  
  Policy reference: employment SS Guide 8.4 Payment approaches
  
  Supplementary help
  
  Recipients receiving JSP MAY likewise get one or more of the following as part of their JSP rate:
  
  - lease support (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 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 undertaking training through the Skills for Education and Employment Program.
  
  Bereavement payment provisions
  
  Following the death of a partner, the surviving member of a couple might be qualified for bereavement payments or a one-off partner bereavement payment
  
  Act referral: SSAct area 660LA Ongoing payment for death of partner, area 660LH One-off payment for death of partner
  
  Policy referral: SS Guide 3.1.5 Bereavement payment provisions
  
  Background to JSP
  
  JSP was presented on 20 March 2020. The following payments progressively stopped as part of the creation of JSP:
  
  - NSA (1.2.1.10) (ceased on 20 March 2020). SA (1.2.5.30) (near to brand-new recipients on 20 March 2020 and stopped on 20 September 2020). BVA (near to new receivers on 20 March 2020 and stopped when all existing recipients finished their bereavement duration). WA (1.2.3.30) (near new recipients 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 receivers on 20 September 2003 ceased on 1 January 2022). WidB (1.2.3.40) (closed to brand-new recipients on 20 March 1997 stopped on 20 March 2020).
  
  Last examined: 20 September 2022
  
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