The Social Security (Child Maintenance Bonus) Regulations 1996

[F1 Entitlement to a BonusE+W+S

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.

[F2(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.]

[F3(1A) In the case of an applicant who satisfies the requirements of paragraph (1)(f) but whose entitlement, or whose partner’s entitlement, to a qualifying benefit ceased otherwise than as a result of satisfying the work condition, for sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(d)had the work condition been satisfied on the day she, or her partner, was last entitled to a qualifying benefit, that entitlement would as a consequence have ceased.”]

(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).]