Regulation 7 Requirements for a bonusI1

he or his partner has or had earnings of which a part only has been disregarded in determining the amount of those earnings for the purposes of a qualifying benefit;

he or his partner takes up or returns to or increases the number of hours in which in any week he or his partner is engaged in employment or the earnings from an employment in which he or his partner is engaged are increased (“the work condition”), and—

in entitlement to a qualifying benefit (other than a partner’s entitlement to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance) in respect of himself, and where he has a partner, his family, ceasing;

he claims the bonus before the end of a period of 12 weeks immediately following the day in respect of which entitlement to the qualifying benefit ceased as mentioned in sub-paragraph (b), and

in a case where the qualifying benefit to which the applicant was entitled—

at the time the work condition was satisfied.

within 14 days of his ceasing to be entitled to a qualifying benefit he or his partner satisfy the work condition;

had the work condition been satisfied on the day he was last entitled to a qualifying benefit, that entitlement would as a consequence have ceased;

he satisfies the requirements of paragraph (2)(a) and (d), and

he claims the bonus within 12 weeks of his ceasing to be entitled to a qualifying benefit.

the applicant has undertaken training;

entitlement to the qualifying benefit ceased in consequence of the payment of a training allowance;

within 14 days of the completion of the training he takes up employment—

he claims the bonus before the end of the period of 12 weeks immediately following the day on which the training ceased;

he satisfies the requirements specified in paragraph (2)(a), and

in a case where the qualifying benefit to which the applicant was entitled—

at the time he took up the employment.

the applicant is formerly one of a couple who have separated;

at the date of separation, either the applicant or his partner was entitled to a qualifying benefit;

had he been entitled to a qualifying benefit on the day of separation, the amount of the qualifying benefit payable to him would have been less than the applicable amount in his case because of the amount of his earnings;

within 14 days of the separation, he satisfies the work condition and is engaged in employment for 16 hours or more per week;

he satisfies the requirements specified in paragraph (2)(a) and (d), and

he claims the bonus within 12 weeks of the day on which the separation occurred.

claims, or whose partner claims, a qualifying benefit within 12 weeks of the day in respect of which his last previous entitlement to a qualifying benefit ceased, and

has not made and whose partner has not made a claim for a bonus before the claim for the qualifying benefit is made,