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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 support payment that supplies financial help to individuals aged 22 years to age pension age who have capacity to work now or in the future and prepared to fulfill mutual commitment requirements.

JSP will consist of gain access to for people who have actually momentarily stopped working or studying to recover from a disease or injury however who have a job or research study to go back to. When the incapacity ends, employment and unless excused from shared responsibilities requirements (3.11.5), a recipient need to:

– get involved in or want to take part in approved activities, and/or job 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 determined?

JSP is calculated on a daily basis and is paid in defaults, employment usually in instalments of 14 days. Instalment periods of less than 2 week might be paid where a person changes their payday plans.

Policy recommendation: SS Guide 8.4 Payment methods

Supplementary assistance

Recipients getting JSP MAY likewise get several of the following as part of their JSP rate:

– rent support (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 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 through the Skills for Education and Employment Program.

Bereavement payment arrangements

Following the death of a partner, employment the surviving member of a couple may be eligible for employment 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 recommendation: 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 development of JSP:

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

Last examined: employment 20 September 2022

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