# The Social Security (Back to Work Bonus) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996, Regulation 2: Period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit


(1) A period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit comprises only days on which a person is entitled to, or treated as entitled to a qualifying benefit.
(2) Subject to paragraph (4), any 2 or more periods of entitlement to a qualifying benefit separated by an intervening period specified in paragraph (3) shall link together to form a single period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit.
(3) The intervening periods specified in this paragraph are—
(a) any connecting period for the purposes of regulation 4;
(b) any period of not more than 12 weeks falling between—
(i) 2 periods of entitlement to a qualifying benefit;
(ii) 2 connecting periods;
(iii) a connecting period and a period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit.
(4) A period of entitlement to a qualifying benefit which would but for this paragraph have continued, shall end—
(a) where the applicant satisfies the work condition and claims a bonus, on the last day of entitlement to a qualifying benefit which precedes the day on which he first satisfies those requirements;
(b) where the person dies, on the date of his death.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/201/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-back-to-work-bonus-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2
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