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Digital Advice - Jobseeker Payment

Learn how to recommend a Centrelink JobSeeker Payment strategy in Digital Advice to support clients who are unemployed.

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Overview

You can use a JobSeeker Payment Strategy to recommend your clients apply for a Centrelink JobSeeker Payment to secure an income if they are unemployed. This strategy helps ensure clients have access to government income support during periods of reduced or lost employment income. It can be used alongside other Digital Advice strategies to provide holistic, best-interest advice tailored to the client’s overall financial position.



Custom Strategy

The Jobseeker Payment Investment Strategy is a Custom Strategy, a template with prefilled text relevant to the recommendation, rather than a strategy that calculates data.

Custom strategies are designed to reduce the time and effort required for drafting in the advisory process. By providing pre-filled text data relevant to the selected strategy, advisors do not need to start from scratch, saving valuable time.

To learn more about Strategy Types, please read the Strategy Cheat Sheet.



Strategy Selection

Please follow the step-by-step instructions below to prepare advice for the Jobseeker Payment Strategy.

📌Note

Before completing this advice, you can model an SMSF strategy in the Cashflow Module. The modelling can be added to the advice to support your recommendation.

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From the Digital Advice - Scenarios Screen, select the Add Scenario icon.


Select the Client the advice is for, or select Joint to create advice for your client and partner. Select the type of advice ( SoA or RoA), then Proceed To Scope.


Select the Jobseeker Payment Strategy from the Strategy screen, then select Proceed. Link the Goals or skip this step.


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Jobseeker Payment

To adjust your Advice text, use the Editor Tool at the top of a Word document-inspired page.

It's a user-friendly feature enabling you to customise your text as needed.

📌Note

Hovering over each icon in the tools ribbon will show what it does.


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To help you with your task, the text area has been designed with 3 constructive main headings pre-filled with common considerations. You can use this as a starting point and customise as needed.

  • My Advice - Outline of the advice that you are providing to the client.

  • Why My Advice is Right for You - Add the reasons for which you have recommended the strategy to the client along with their benefits.

  • Risk and Things to Consider - Add consequences etc. for your Advice.



Edit the Advice Document

You may also edit the advice document from within the scenario by selecting the Save And Preview button from the top right of any screen within a digital advice scenario and following the Advice Editing Instructions.


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Fee Disclosure

After editing the text to your liking, select the Proceed to Disclosure Fees button at the bottom right of the screen. From there, add your fees and complete your advice.


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Link Cashflow

After completing the advice, you may add any previously created cashflow modelling to the scenario by selecting the Link Cashflow option from the Scenario Tile. The cashflow tables will be drawn into the final advice document.

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