• ““child maintenance” means maintenance in any of the following forms—

  1. (a)

     child support maintenance paid or payable;

  2. (b)

     maintenance paid or payable by an absent parent to a person with care of a qualifying child, under an agreement (whether enforceable or not) between them, or by virtue of an order of a court, or

  3. (c)

     maintenance deducted from any benefit payable to an absent parent who is liable to maintain a qualifying child,

  which, as the case may be, is paid, payable, or deducted on or after the 1st April 1998, but does not include any maintenance paid or payable in respect of a former partner.”.

“(f)

the work condition is satisfied within the period of—

(i)

in a case where an applicant with care cares for one child only and that child dies, 12 months immediately following the date of death;

(ii)

in a case where the absent parent has—

(aa)

died;

(bb)

ceased to be habitually resident in the United Kingdom, or

(cc)

has been found not to be the parent of the qualifying child or children,

12 weeks immediately following the first date on which any of those events occurs;

(iii)

in any other case, 14 days immediately following the day on which the bonus period applying to the applicant comes to an end.”.

“(i)

paid or payable to the applicant, or”.