Free ESA & WCA Tools

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paste one draft answer from your WCA50 (ESA50 or UC50) and see in a second what it is missing against the ten things decision makers score: how often, what help, safety, time and repetition, what goes wrong, a real example, the cause, and the phrases that quietly hand points back. Nothing you paste leaves your browser.

Tell it where you are in your ESA or Universal Credit claim and the date on your letter. It works out every date that matters next: when the waiting period for the health element ends, when to post the WCA50, when to start preparing for the assessment, when to ask about a slow decision and your mandatory reconsideration and appeal deadlines. Each date shows its rule and source and goes into your calendar with an alert the day before. The dates are worked out in your browser.

Points never give LCWRA or the Support Group. This checker goes through the descriptors that do, across all 16 activities and in the words of the law, with a plain-English line and an evidence checklist for each one. It covers the substantial risk rule, terminal illness and cancer treatment and, on Universal Credit, which 2026 rate would apply to you: £429.80 or £217.26 a month, including the pre-2026 protection and the Severe Conditions Criteria.