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 changed NSA from 20 March 2020.

JSP is an income support payment that provides monetary 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 shared obligation requirements.

JSP will include access for individuals who have temporarily stopped working or studying to recover from an illness or injury however who work or study to go back to. When the incapacity ends, and unless exempted from mutual commitments requirements (3.11.5), a recipient should:

– take part in or be prepared to take part in authorized activities, and/or task search, and
– be prepared to enter into, adhere to or differ an existing Job Plan to fulfil the mutual commitment requirements (3.11 ).

How is JSP entitlement figured out?

JSP is calculated on an everyday basis and is paid in arrears, usually in instalments of 14 days. Instalment durations of less than 14 days might be paid where a person changes their .

Policy recommendation: 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:

– 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).
– 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 employment PCC (1.2.8.20).
LLNS (1.2.7.110) if undertaking training through the Skills for Education and Employment Program.

Bereavement payment arrangements

Following the death of a partner, the making it through member of a couple may be qualified for bereavement payments or a one-off partner bereavement payment

Act referral: SSAct section 660LA Ongoing payment for death of partner, area 660LH One-off payment for death of partner

Policy reference: SS Guide 3.1.5 Bereavement payment arrangements

Background to JSP

JSP was presented on 20 March 2020. The following payments progressively ceased as part of the development of JSP:

– NSA (1.2.1.10) (ceased on 20 March 2020).
SA (1.2.5.30) (near new recipients on 20 March 2020 and ceased on 20 September 2020).
BVA (closed to brand-new receivers on 20 March 2020 and ceased when all existing receivers completed their bereavement duration).
WA (1.2.3.30) (near brand-new receivers on 1 July 2018 and ceased on 1 January 2022).
WP (1.2.3.20) (closed to brand-new receivers on 1 July 1995 ceased on 20 March 2020).
PA (1.2.2.10) (near brand-new receivers on 20 September 2003 ceased on 1 January 2022).
WidB (1.2.3.40) (near to brand-new recipients on 20 March 1997 stopped on 20 March 2020).

Last reviewed: 20 September 2022

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