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<div class="grid-row">
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<div class="gem-c-title
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<h1 class="gem-c-title__text ">
Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA)
</h1>
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<h2 class="gem-c-contents-list__title">Contents</h2>
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<li class="gem-c-contents-list__list-item gem-c-contents-list__list-item--dashed gem-c-contents-list__list-item--active" aria-current="true">
How it works
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<a class="gem-c-contents-list__link " data-track-category="contentsClicked" data-track-action="content_item 6" data-track-label="/jobseekers-allowance/report-a-change-of-circumstances" data-track-options="{"dimension29":"Report a change of circumstances"}" href="/jobseekers-allowance/report-a-change-of-circumstances">Report a change of circumstances</a>
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<h1 class="part-title">
How it works
</h1>
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<p>You can apply for Jobseeker’s Allowance (<abbr title="Jobseeker's Allowance">JSA</abbr>) to help you when you look for work.</p>
<div role="note" aria-label="Information" class="application-notice info-notice">
<p>This page is also available in Welsh (<a href="/lwfans-ceisio-gwaith">Cymraeg</a>).</p>
</div>
<h2 id="what-you-need-to-do">What you need to do</h2>
<ol class="steps">
<li>
<p>Check you’re <a href="/jobseekers-allowance/eligibility">eligible</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="/jobseekers-allowance/how-to-claim">Make a claim</a> and go to an interview at your local Jobcentre Plus office.</p>
</li>
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<p>Keep to your <a href="/jobseekers-allowance/your-jsa-interview">agreement to look for work</a>.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p><a href="/jobseekers-allowance/your-jsa-claim">Your <abbr title="Jobseeker's Allowance">JSA</abbr> payments will be stopped</a> if you do not keep to your agreement to look for work and cannot give a good reason.</p>
<div role="note" aria-label="Information" class="application-notice info-notice">
<p>Check if you’re <a href="/universal-credit/eligibility">eligible for Universal Credit</a>. If you are, you could get Universal Credit at the same time or instead of ‘new style’ <abbr title="Jobseeker's Allowance">JSA</abbr>.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="what-youll-get">What you’ll get</h2>
<p>There’s a maximum amount you can get - but how much you’re entitled to depends on things like your age, income and savings.</p>
<p>Use a <a href="/benefits-calculators">benefits calculator</a> to check how much <abbr title="Jobseeker's Allowance">JSA</abbr> you can get, and how your other benefits will be affected.</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Age</th>
<th>
<abbr title="Jobseeker's Allowance">JSA</abbr> weekly amount</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Up to 24</td>
<td>up to £57.90</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>25 or over</td>
<td>up to £73.10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Couples (both aged over 18)</td>
<td>up to £114.85</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 id="how-youre-paid">How you’re paid</h2>
<p>Payments are usually made every 2 weeks.</p>
<p>All benefits, pensions and allowances are usually paid into your <a href="/how-to-have-your-benefits-paid">bank, building society or credit union account</a>.</p>
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