The Social Security (Child Maintenance Bonus) Regulations 1996

Entitlement to a Bonus

3.—(1) An applicant is entitled to a bonus where—

(a) she has claimed a bonus in accordance with regulation 10 (claiming a bonus);

(b) the claim relates to days falling within a bonus period;

(c) except where paragraph (2) applies, she satisfies the work condition, that is to say, she or her partner takes up or returns to work or increases the number of hours in which in any week she or her partner is engaged in employment or the earnings from an employment in which she or her partner are engaged is increased;

(d) as a result of satisfying the work condition any entitlement to a qualifying benefit in respect of herself and, where she has a partner, her family ceases;

(e) in a case where the qualifying benefit which ceased—

(i) was income support, the person with care has not reached the day before her 60th birthday;

(ii) was a jobseeker’s allowance, the person with care has not reached the day before she attains pensionable age,

at the time the work condition is satisfied; and the work condition is satisfied within a period of 14 days following the last day in respect of which a qualifying benefit is payable.

(2) A person who is absent from work because of a trade dispute at her place of work and returns to work with the employer she worked for before the dispute began, does not thereby satisfy the requirements of paragraph (1)(c).

(3) In paragraph (2), “place of work”, in relation to any person, means the premises at which she was employed.

(4) An applicant is also entitled to a bonus where she satisfies the requirements specified in regulation 8 (retirement).