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When You’ll get your very First Payment

When you can get JobSeeker Payment is based on your situations. There may be some waiting durations that affect how quickly you can get your very first payment.

What you require to do before you make money

You’ll need to complete your preliminary tasks and report your earnings before we can make your first payment. Check out brand-new to JobSeeker Payment.

When you’ll get paid

For the most part, you’ll get your first JobSeeker Payment around 2 weeks after we authorize your claim You may have to wait if any waiting durations use. Once your payment begins, we’ll pay you fortnightly.

We calculate the waiting duration that applies to you when we examine your claim. The time it takes us to evaluate your claim doesn’t affect your waiting duration. You can anticipate to hear from us within 21 days of sending your claim.

If your Centrelink online account is connected to myGov, you can examine your finished claim online. Check in now to discover:

– when we have actually your claim.

– when your payment will start

– when you require to report your earnings

– when your first income report is due.

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You’ll require to report your income before we can make your very first payment.

Why you might have to wait

Some people will have a one week ordinary waiting duration. In some scenarios, you may have to wait for your very first payment.

You have cost savings or other money

If you or your partner have liquid properties over certain limits, you may have to wait 1 to 13 weeks. Liquid possessions are any funds easily offered to you or your partner. This consists of money owed by your or your partner’s employer. Read about liquid possessions waiting durations.

You got a swelling sum payment when you finished work

If your company paid you a swelling sum as either:

– annual leave

– a redundancy when you left.

The time you need to wait is relative to the lump amount payment. Check out income upkeep durations.

You recently finished seasonal work

If you or your partner finished seasonal, contract or employment periodic work in the 6 months before claiming. The time you need to wait depends on just how much you made and employment the length of time you were working. Check out the seasonal work preclusion duration.

You’re new to Australia

If you have actually just recently arrived in Australia as a homeowner, you may need to wait as much as 4 years to qualify. Check out the newly arrived citizen’s waiting duration.

You’ve had a compensation payment

If you have actually had a swelling amount settlement payment. The time you have to wait depends upon how much your lump sum payment is. Use our payment estimator or phone us on your routine payment line for info about your payment preclusion period.

We have pointers and tools for budgeting and managing your money throughout this time.

What you need to do to get your very first JobSeeker Payment, just how much you’ll get and who to contact about mutual obligation requirements.

You may need to wait on a week before your payment begins. We will let you understand employment when you claim if this uses to you.