The Social Security (Child Maintenance Bonus) Regulations 1996

Payment of bonus

12.  A bonus calculated by reference to child maintenance paid during periods of entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance and to income support shall be treated as payable—

(a)wholly by way of a jobseeker’s allowance, where the qualifying benefit last in payment in the bonus period was a jobseeker’s allowance; or

(b)wholly by way of income support, where the qualifying benefit last in payment in the bonus period was income support.