A printable monthly diary built around the 17 Work Capability Assessment activities and the majority of days rule - so every tick you make is evidence a decision maker has to weigh, not just a note.
ESA and the UC health element are not decided on your diagnosis. The Work Capability Assessment looks at how your condition affects 17 activities on the majority of days - and whether you can do each one reliably, repeatedly and safely. The problem: by the time the WCA50 form or the assessment arrives, nobody remembers three Tuesdays ago. A diary kept day by day does.
What is inside
A full month of daily pagesFour weeks, 28 daily pages - all 17 WCA activities with tick columns that map to the legal tests: struggled, took much longer, needed help or prompting, unsafe or incident, could not do it.
Weekly + monthly summariesEach week counts your bad days against the "more than half" rule; the monthly summary totals the month (15 or more of 28 = your typical days) and captures your three worst incidents - your strongest evidence at any reassessment.
How-to guideTwo minutes each evening: record the worst moment of the day, not the average, and never downplay. Written the way assessors actually ask.
Reassessment protectionReassessments run the same 17-activity test again. A running diary proves your ups and downs are the same condition, not a recovery.
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Print it single-sided, keep completed weeks together, and start tonight - the best month to record is the one you are in.
Tip: if someone helps care for you, ask them to add what they saw in the notes. What a carer witnesses counts too - our free Carer's Statement Template turns it into signed evidence.
Why every tick is evidence
Most symptom trackers ask how you feel. This one asks what a WCA decision maker must know: for each of the 17 activities, could you do it reliably today? The columns capture struggle, time, help, safety and impossibility, and the weekly count lines up with the "majority of days" principle in the ESA and UC rules. When you later write your WCA50, prepare for an assessment or face a reassessment, you mine the diary for real, dated examples - "on Tuesday I could not stand long enough to cook and went without a hot meal" beats "I struggle with cooking" every time.
It works for new claims and reassessments alike - and it pairs naturally with our ESA evidence checklist.
Turn your diary into WCA50-ready answers
The diary gathers the evidence. Our service turns it into the wording decision makers score against - personalised answers for all 17 WCA activities based on your conditions.
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Why does a diary help an ESA or UC claim?+
The Work Capability Assessment is decided on how your condition affects 17 activities on the majority of days, and whether you can do each reliably, repeatedly and safely. A diary kept day by day is contemporaneous evidence of that pattern - far stronger than trying to remember your worst days when the WCA50 or the assessment arrives. Every tick box in this diary maps to what decision makers must weigh.
Does the diary work for an ESA or UC reassessment?+
Yes - reassessments are where it shines. A reassessment runs the same 17-activity test again. A diary kept between assessments shows that your ups and downs are the same condition behaving as it always has, not a recovery.
Is my information safe?+
We only ask for your email address to send you the diary and occasional ESA guidance. The diary itself is a printable PDF - everything you write in it stays on your paper, with you. We never see it.