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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008/regulation-55",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/794",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/55",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Work-focused interview",
  "text": "The purposes of a work-focused interview are any or all of the following—\n(a) assessing the claimant's prospects for remaining in or obtaining work;\n(b) assisting or encouraging the claimant to remain in or obtain work;\n(c) identifying activities that the claimant may undertake that will make remaining in or obtaining work more likely;\n(d) identifying training, educational or rehabilitation opportunities for the claimant which may make it more likely that the claimant will remain in or obtain work or be able to do so;\n(e) identifying current or future work opportunities, including self-employment opportunities, for the claimant, that are relevant to the claimant's needs and abilities.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/794/regulation/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:37:55.280707+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}