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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 income assistance payment that offers financial assistance to people aged 22 years to age pension age who have capacity to work now or in the near future and prepared to satisfy mutual commitment requirements.

JSP will include access for people who have briefly stopped working or studying to recover from a disease or injury but who have a job or research study to return to. When the incapacity ends, and unless excused from shared responsibilities requirements (3.11.5), a recipient need to:

- participate in or be willing to take part in authorized activities, and/or task search, and
- be prepared to participate in, abide by or employment differ an existing Job Plan to satisfy the shared commitment requirements (3.11 ).

How is JSP privilege identified?

JSP is calculated on a day-to-day basis and is paid in defaults, normally in instalments of 14 days. Instalment durations of less than 2 week might be paid where a person modifications their payday arrangements.

Policy referral: SS Guide 8.4 Payment approaches

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 invoice 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 enduring member of a couple might be qualified 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 referral: SS Guide 3.1.5 Bereavement payment arrangements

Background to JSP

JSP was presented on 20 March 2020. The following payments gradually 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 new receivers on 20 March 2020 and stopped on 20 September 2020).
BVA (near new receivers on 20 March 2020 and stopped when all existing recipients finished their bereavement period).
WA (1.2.3.30) (near new receivers 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) (near brand-new receivers on 20 September 2003 stopped on 1 January 2022).
WidB (1.2.3.40) (near new recipients on 20 March 1997 stopped on 20 March 2020).

Last evaluated: 20 September 2022

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