The way EMA is payed out should be changed

[dbgtz]

The whole government (assuming it's a government paid scheme) should be revised. I mean we have a prime minister who wasn't even elected.

[Smits]

No matter what the boundaries are, those just inside will be happy, yet those just outside will be annoyed meaning it cant really be changed to benefit.

Its not meant to spend on books or anything. It's meant to encourage peopel to stay in education, and help them get through it.

[Black_Apalachi]

The college should keep it and put it towards education trips. Students should have to pay, keep proof of what they've paid for books/travel etc and at the end of the month they should get it back.

shushhh just cos you're rollin in it on your farm ;l

i liked it the way it was. i scribbled most of the signatures onto the card myself and got my 30 a week and i saved up most of it. i didn't even know there was bonuses until we got them. it was like christmas.

[iAdam]

I'm going to have to say your naive by saying that families who arn't eligible can cope, I won't be able to claim even the smallest amount of EMA, and it really isn't fair. For years I've had hobbies which required money to be put in by my parents, now i've gotten a bit older I'm starting to pay for it myself and pay my parents back, but when it gets to education i'm not stopping these hobbies and yet again my parents are going to have to help which makes me feel like i'm living off my parents again which isn't fair on them as they like to spend their money on what they like now aswell as I have begun paying for things myself. Yes i'll get a decent job then but it still annoys me that people are wasting their EMA on things like alcohol and not using it as it's meant to be. Whole system should be thought out again tbh.

[Immenseman]

the only thing i have paid for me rob is education type things and food!!

[Dan2nd]

One of my friends really did need EMA as his mum was a single parent who barely earned anything.. however there were those people who spent theirs on things they shouldn't have which annoys me because the money they are blowing could have been used to help people in more need.

I don't get annoyed because I didn't get it I get annoyed because I think my friend who needed EMA should have got more support as he had to get a satuday job on top of his EMA to help his mum out with the bills whilst those people went out at the weekend and spent theirs on consol games and booze

[dirrty]

One of my friends really did need EMA as his mum was a single parent who barely earned anything.. however there were those people who spent theirs on things they shouldn't have which annoys me because the money they are blowing could have been used to help people in more need.

I don't get annoyed because I didn't get it I get annoyed because I think my friend who needed EMA should have got more support as he had to get a satuday job on top of his EMA to help his mum out with the bills whilst those people out at the weekend spent theirs on consol games and booze

life is unfair, deal with it. what do you expect those who get ema and spend it on whatever to do? refuse it?

[Immenseman]

yeah i hate that my mates get it when they don't need it any more than i do but if i got it i wouldn't use it for college stuff either. sure i'd get my books etc but i'd use it to buy luxuries like booze, clothes and other things i don't really need but want to have

[Eoin]

EMA was the reason i went to school. personally i hated the place, but being paid £30 a week made it worth while

[Pix]

EMA was the reason i went to school. personally i hated the place, but being paid £30 a week made it worth while

which is exactly why they have it