Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, was arrested this week – five days and about 300 miles from the crime scene – after a customer recognized him at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

The eagle-eyed tipster, who has not been publicly identified, alerted an employee who then called 911, authorities say. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said the person who discovered Mangione was a “hero.”

But will these tipsters receive a payout? The answer is complicated.

During the day-long federal manhunt, both state and federal law enforcement agencies offered a reward for information: $10,000 from the New York Police Department and up to $50,000 from the FBI.

“The person in Pennsylvania who gave a tip is eligible for the reward,” the NYC Police Foundation, which manages the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Program, confirmed to NPR on Friday.

However, there are some severe conditions associated with it.

Specifically, both the NYPD and FBI require that tips lead to an “arrest and conviction.” (The NYPD typically only requires one arrest and one indictment, but the threshold is higher for rewards over $3,500, the foundation says.)

Mangione was arrested in Pennsylvania on five charges, including illegal weapons possession and forgery, and later charged with murder in New York. He is fighting extradition, a move that lawyers say is unlikely to succeed but could delay the trial by up to a few weeks – meaning a trial, let alone a possible conviction, is still a few steps away is removed.

Even if that happens, it’s not guaranteed that an individual will receive the full $60,000, especially given taxes and the possibility of the reward being split among multiple people.

NYPD officials said more than 400 tips were received over the five days, about 30 of which proved useful in locating the shooter, according to the Associated Press.

Here’s what would have to happen for someone to receive the reward.

This is how the NYPD tip line works

The NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Program encourages people to submit tips about violent crimes by calling a hotline or filling out an online form, a process that is said to be completely anonymous.

Anyone who provides information will receive a reference number with which they can follow up the investigation online or by telephone after at least a week.

If that person’s tip leads to an arrest and indictment, they will receive a reward of up to $3,500. A New York City Police Foundation committee will conduct a case-by-case review to determine the exact amount.

The foundation has worked with the NYPD to administer the program since 1983. It says calls to Crime Stoppers have helped solve more than 5,600 violent crimes and resulted in more than $3 million in approved rewards.

The federal rewards process is even more complicated

It takes a lot more effort to get rewards from the FBI.

This is done through Rewards for Justice (RFJ), a multi-agency program administered by the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security that provides rewards for information related to specific national security threats, including terrorism.

In particular, individuals cannot initiate the process themselves. A US investigative agency – in this case the FBI – must first name a person, which triggers a legal review of eligibility.

An interagency committee then evaluates the nominating agency’s information and makes a non-binding recommendation to the Secretary of State, who has final discretion to decide whether to approve a reward and how much it should be.

According to the State Department, reward offers can be as high as $25 million.

The department says that determining factors include “the value of the information provided, the magnitude of the threat mitigated by the information received, the severity of the threat or injury to U.S. persons or property, the risk to which a source and are exposed to it, “says the ministry family; and the level of cooperation of a source.”

According to its website, since its founding in 1984, RFJ has paid over $250 million to more than 125 individuals whose efforts have “saved countless lives.”

Because of the program’s emphasis on confidentiality, authorities do not publicly disclose details of rewards – they typically do not even disclose that a reward has been paid, except in some high-profile cases.

RFJ paid $2 million for information that led to the 1995 arrest of Pakistani Ramzi Yousef, one of the people convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In 2014, it paid $3 million to an individual who leaked information that led to the arrest and conviction of Ahmed Abu Khattalah, the architect of the 2012 Benghazi attack.