When You’ll get your very First Payment

When you can get JobSeeker Payment is based upon your circumstances. There may be some waiting durations that affect how soon you can get your first payment.

What you need to do before you get paid

You’ll need to complete your initial tasks and report your earnings before we can make your first payment. Read about brand-new to JobSeeker Payment.

When you’ll make money

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

We determine the waiting period that applies to you when we evaluate your claim. The time it takes us to evaluate your claim doesn’t affect your waiting period. You can anticipate to speak with us within 21 days of submitting your claim.

If your Centrelink online account is linked to myGov, you can examine your completed claim online. Check in now to learn:

– when we have actually accepted your claim.

– when your payment will begin

– when you need to report your income

– when your first earnings report is due.

Check in to myGov

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

Why you might need to wait

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

You have savings or employment other money

If you or your partner have liquid assets over specific limits, you may have to wait 1 to 13 weeks. Liquid possessions are any funds easily offered to you or your partner. This includes money owed by your or your partner’s employer. Read about liquid assets waiting periods.

You got a swelling sum payment when you finished work

If your company paid you a lump amount as either:

– yearly leave

– a redundancy when you left.

The time you have to wait is relative to the swelling amount payment. Check out earnings maintenance durations.

You recently finished seasonal work

If you or your partner finished seasonal, agreement or intermittent work in the 6 months before declaring. The time you require to wait depends upon just how much you earned and for how long you were working. Read about the seasonal work preclusion period.

You’re brand-new to Australia

If you’ve just recently arrived in Australia as a resident, you may have to wait as much as 4 years to certify. Check out the newly shown up local’s waiting period.

You have actually had a compensation payment

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

We have ideas and tools for employment budgeting and handling your cash throughout this time.

What you require to do to get your first JobSeeker Payment, just how much you’ll get and who to get in touch with about shared obligation requirements.

You may have to await a week before your begins. We will let you understand when you declare if this uses to you.