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PIP Evidence Diary & Activity Tracker
Log your good, bad and variable days against the 12 PIP activities. It counts how often each difficulty happens, flags anything that affects you on more than half of the days you logged, and gives you a one-page summary to attach to a claim or reconsideration.
Works in Google Sheets & Excel
£6
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Instant digital download, sold through Payhip.
This is a guide only and not official benefits advice.It helps you keep a record of how your condition affects you. It doesn't work out PIP points or whether you'll get PIP: the DWP decides that after an assessment. For free, independent help, contact Citizens Advice or Turn2us, and see gov.uk/pip.
About this diary
PIP looks at how your condition affects you over time, not just on the day of an assessment, and a good day can hide a lot of bad ones. This diary helps you keep a steady, honest record in the words PIP uses: whether you can do each activity reliably, what aids you use and what help you need. It's a record-keeping tool, so it doesn't score you or predict a decision. Made in Jersey.
What's included
- All 12 PIP activitiesPreparing food, taking nutrition, managing therapy or monitoring a health condition, washing and bathing, managing toilet needs, dressing and undressing, communicating verbally, reading, engaging with other people, making budgeting decisions, planning and following journeys, and moving around.
- Simple daily logDate, good, bad or variable day, how hard each activity was, aids used, help needed (prompting, supervision or assistance) and notes. Drop-downs keep it quick on a bad day.
- The reliability questionRecord whether you could do it safely, to an acceptable standard, as often as needed and in a reasonable time.
- Automatic activity summaryDays with difficulty and the percentage of logged days for each activity, with a clear flag when it's more than half.
- Printable one-page summaryReady to attach to your PIP2 form, a mandatory reconsideration or an appeal, with your latest note for each activity.
- Plain-English guideWhat each activity covers and what's worth writing down, based on the official PIP rules, plus a Sources tab.
- Where to get free helpLinks to Citizens Advice, Turn2us and gov.uk, with notes for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
- Google Sheets & ExcelNo macros. Your diary stays on your own device or Drive.