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 assistance payment that supplies financial support to people aged 22 years to age pension age who have capacity to work now or in the near future and prepared to meet mutual responsibility requirements.

JSP will include gain access to for individuals who have briefly stopped working or studying to recover from a health problem or employment injury however who work or employment research study to go back to. When the incapacity ends, and unless exempted from shared responsibilities requirements (3.11.5), a recipient should:

– participate in or employment be prepared to take part in authorized activities, employment and/or job search, and
– be prepared to get in into, adhere to or differ an existing Job Plan to satisfy the mutual obligation requirements (3.11 ).

How is JSP entitlement determined?

JSP is computed on a and is paid in defaults, generally in instalments of 14 days. Instalment durations of less than 14 days may be paid where an individual modifications their payday arrangements.

Policy recommendation: SS Guide 8.4 Payment techniques

Supplementary support

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

– lease 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 undertaking training through the Skills for Education and Employment Program.

Bereavement payment provisions

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

Act recommendation: SSAct section 660LA Ongoing payment for death of partner, 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 gradually ceased as part of the development of JSP:

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

Last examined: 20 September 2022

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