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Free ESA & WCA Tools

Four tools to help you understand your ESA or Universal Credit (Work Capability Assessment) claim before deciding whether to pay for full guidance.

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The free tools help you understand the rules. The paid report turns those rules into ready-to-copy WCA50 answers for your exact conditions, across all 17 activities.

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ESA & UC Symptom Diary (PDF)

Free download Printable A4 A full month per pack
A printable monthly diary built around the 17 Work Capability Assessment activities. Tick columns capture struggle, time, help, safety and impossibility, and the weekly and monthly summaries count your bad days against the majority of days rule - contemporaneous evidence for your WCA50, assessment or reassessment.
Use when: you are preparing a claim, waiting for an assessment, or a reassessment is coming and you want your pattern on paper.
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ESA Carer's Statement Template (PDF)

Free download Printable A4 Guided prompts + declaration
A guided template for the partner, family member, friend or support worker who helps you. Prompts for every area of daily life, how-often tick boxes that match the "majority of the time" principle, space for three dated incidents they witnessed, and a signed declaration page - first-hand evidence for your WCA50, reassessment or appeal, and strong support for the substantial-risk route.
Use when: someone helps you day to day and you want their evidence in your claim - most people never send it because their carer does not know what to write.
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WCA Assessment Day Companion (PDF)

Free download Printable A4 Before, during + after
A bring-sheet for telephone, video and face-to-face WCA assessments: what actually happens at the appointment, one page for your conditions, medication, aids and worst dated incidents, your typical day mapped out in advance, and a same-day after-notes page that becomes your evidence if the assessor's report gets it wrong.
Use when: your assessment is booked and you want your facts on paper before the nerves arrive.
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ESA Evidence Tracker (PDF)

Free download Printable A4 Request, receive, send
The paper-trail organiser: the three rules that make WCA evidence count (function, recent, relevant), how to ask for each item from the GP letter to fit notes, a requested / received / sent tracker for the whole bundle, and a sending log with a cover note block so nothing gets lost between your folder and the DWP's.
Use when: you are gathering evidence for a claim, reassessment or challenge and want every letter accounted for.
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