Coji Could Be Funded, Not Just Discounted
If you’re in the UK and have a disability, chronic illness, mental health condition, or specific learning difficulty, Access to Work or Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) could pay for Coji as part of the support you’re entitled to at work or in study.
Here’s what these schemes are, what Coji does that fits them, and exactly how to claim it.
Access to Work
A UK government grant, run by the DWP, for people whose disability or health condition affects how they work. It can pay for equipment, software, coaching, a support worker, or travel, on top of whatever your employer already provides.
For: employees, self-employed people, and anyone about to start a job, apprenticeship, or work trial.
Disabled Students’ Allowance
A non-repayable grant for students with a disability, long-term illness, mental health condition, or specific learning difficulty (like ADHD, dyslexia, or dyspraxia). It isn’t means-tested, so household income doesn’t affect it.
For: students in higher education, and some further education courses.
What Coji Does That Fits These Schemes
Assessors look for a tool that removes a specific barrier, and they want to know how it does it. Here’s the plain answer.
Task initiation and sequencing
The Eisenpower Matrix sorts work into four categories instead of one undifferentiated list, and tasks break into steps at the point of avoidance rather than in advance. That reduces the executive-function cost of starting and finishing work.
Energy pacing and fluctuating capacity
Tasks are costed in energy rather than in clock time. You declare the capacity you have that day and the plan resizes to it, which is what makes it usable when capacity changes week to week.
Self-report check-ins you own
Short daily check-ins you complete yourself build up a plain summary you can choose to bring to an assessor, a manager, or a disability adviser. Nothing is shared unless you share it.
Built around functional barriers, not general productivity
Coji is designed for people who find planning, memory, sequencing and time estimation difficult. That is the kind of functional difficulty these schemes exist to remove, which is why it reads as assistive software rather than an ordinary planner.
How to Claim Through Access to Work
Check you’re eligible
You need a disability or long-term health condition that affects how you do your work, and you must be employed, self-employed, or about to start a job, apprenticeship, or work trial.
Apply on gov.uk
Apply online at gov.uk/access-to-work, or by phone if that’s more accessible for you. It’s free to apply.
Have your needs assessment call
A DWP adviser, or a workplace assessor, will ask which parts of your job you find difficult and why. This is where you explain the barrier and the support that would remove it, including software like Coji.
Get your Statement of Support
This letter sets out what’s been approved. If Coji is included, you’ll be told how it’s paid for, either reimbursed to you or invoiced directly.
Claim it back
Keep your Coji payment receipt. Email hello@cojiuniverse.app if you need an invoice for your claim.
How to Claim Through DSA
Check you’re eligible
DSA is for students in higher education (and some further education) with a disability, long-term illness, mental health condition, or specific learning difficulty such as ADHD, dyslexia, or dyspraxia.
Apply through your funding body
Student Finance England, Wales, or Northern Ireland, or SAAS if you’re in Scotland. It’s separate from your main student finance application and isn’t means-tested.
Send your own evidence to your funding body
DSA asks you to evidence your eligibility. Depending on your circumstances that usually means a diagnostic report from a qualified assessor, or a letter from your GP, a consultant, or your university’s disability service. This evidence comes from your own clinician or institution and goes to your funding body. It has nothing to do with Coji, which makes no diagnostic claim about anyone.
Attend your Study Needs Assessment
A short meeting, in person or online, where an assessor recommends the equipment and software that would remove the barriers you’ve described. Mention Coji by name and explain what it lets you do that you currently find difficult.
Get your allowance
Once approved, your funding body arranges payment for the recommended items. Coji can provide a receipt or invoice for your records.
What to say in your needs assessment
Assessors respond to barriers and mechanisms, not to labels. Name the thing you find difficult, then name what the software does about it. Try something like:
“I find it difficult to start tasks, hold a plan in my head, and judge how long things will take, and my capacity changes a lot from day to day. I’d like Coji Universe. It breaks a task into steps at the point where I stall, holds the whole day in one screen so I’m not carrying it in my head, and costs tasks in energy rather than clock time so I can plan around the capacity I actually have. It costs £60 a year.”
Swap in the difficulties that are actually yours and the features that actually help. The more specific the barrier, the stronger your case.
Need a receipt or invoice for your claim?
Email hello@cojiuniverse.app and I’ll send you what you need for Access to Work or DSA paperwork.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who decides, and who doesn’t
Funding decisions are made by the Department for Work and Pensions or your funding body, not by Coji. I cannot guarantee an application will be approved. This page explains how other people have applied and what to include. It is not advice.
Coji is assistive technology. It is not a medical device, it does not diagnose, and it does not provide treatment. Everything in a Coji profile is what you told it about yourself. You own it, and nothing is shared unless you choose to share it.
This page is general information, not financial or legal advice, and isn’t a guarantee of funding. Access to Work and DSA rules, evidence requirements, and amounts are set by the UK government and can change. Check gov.uk/access-to-work and gov.uk/disabled-students-allowances-dsas for current guidance before applying. These schemes are only available in the UK.
Building your claim? I’ll send you the paperwork
A written description of what Coji does for an assessor’s report, plus an invoice or receipt in whatever form your funding body needs. £5.99/mo or £60/yr.
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