A printable monthly diary built around the 12 ADP activities and the reliability rules - so every tick you make is evidence Social Security Scotland has to weigh, not just a note.
Adult Disability Payment is not decided on your diagnosis. It is decided on how your condition affects 12 everyday activities on the majority of days - and whether you can do each one safely, to an acceptable standard, repeatedly and in a reasonable time. The problem: by the time the application, a request for information or the review pack 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 12 ADP 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.
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.
Review protectionThe Social Security Scotland review pack itself says day-to-day fluctuation does not need reporting. A running diary proves your pattern before any review.
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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.
We have also emailed you the download link, with three tips for using it, so you can come back to it any time.
Next: see your own answer, free
The diary gathers the evidence. The points are scored on Part 2 of the ADP application. See how one of your own activities reads as an answer written the way case managers score it, free, no card, about two minutes.
Most symptom trackers ask how you feel. This one asks what a Social Security Scotland case manager must know: for each activity, could you do it reliably today? Each column corresponds to one of the four reliability tests in the ADP rules, and the weekly count lines up with the "majority of days" principle. When you later write your application, answer a request for information or face a review, 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.
The diary gathers the evidence. Our service turns it into the wording decision makers score against - personalised answers for all 12 activities based on your conditions - and a dedicated Award review mode for the review pack.
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Why does a diary help an ADP application?+
Adult Disability Payment is decided on how your condition affects 12 everyday activities on the majority of days, tested against the reliability rules: safely, to an acceptable standard, repeatedly and in a reasonable time. A diary kept day by day is contemporaneous evidence of that pattern - far stronger than trying to remember your worst days when the form or the review pack arrives. Every tick box in this diary maps to one of those legal tests.
Does the diary work for an ADP award review?+
Yes - reviews are where it shines. The review pack asks you to tick "My needs are the same" or "My needs have changed", and Social Security Scotland itself says day-to-day fluctuation does not need reporting. A diary kept in the months before your review is how you answer that tick-box honestly and confidently.
Is my information safe?+
We only ask for your email address to send you the diary and occasional ADP guidance. The diary itself is a printable PDF - everything you write in it stays on your paper, with you. We never see it.