The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Regulations 2008

Purposes of a work-focused interviewE+W+S

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4.  A work-focused interview is an interview with a relevant claimant that is conducted for any or all of the following purposes—

(a)assessing the relevant claimant's prospects of remaining in or obtaining work;

(b)assisting or encouraging the relevant claimant to remain in or obtain work;

(c)identifying activities that the relevant claimant may undertake that will make remaining in or obtaining work more likely;

(d)identifying training, educational or rehabilitation opportunities for the relevant claimant which may make it more likely that the relevant claimant will remain in or obtain work or be able to do so;

(e)identifying current or future work opportunities, including self-employment opportunities, for the relevant claimant, which are relevant to that person's needs and abilities.