EMA/ALG how the hell do you get out of this? :l

[Catzsy]

£30 a week

Yeah, and with dentist appointments you book every 6 months. So it's not asif you booked the appointment a couple of days before (unless it's an emergency) and if you do, they're usually booked up so you have to get what you're given.


I spend £10 on a bus pass per week, so if £30 has to last me for 2 weeks, then that's £20 on travel and then that leaves me with £10 for food for 2 weeks. So that would be £5 a week, £1 a day.

And yeah, I don't spend every penny on what I'm supposed to, but do you really expect me to just stay at home all the time and do nothing?

As opposed to those who are on Job Seekers and usually just because they cba to work get more financial help and can go out a lot more than me, whos in education trying to make something of my life. Yet it's people like you who are pretty much saying you can't enjoy your life whilst in Education

I sympathise with you Moh. EMA is your right and whatever you say won't be good enough as some members simply don't agree with the concept of EMA.

[Jam]

People have lived without it and they once again will, get used to it.

[N!ck]

Be grateful you get any of my parent's money.

I was given less than £30 per week from my parents when I went to sixth form so you're better off than me.

DW, I hate job seekers a lot more.

[Catzsy]

People have lived without it and they once again will, get used to it.

Be grateful you get any of my parent's money.

I was given less than £30 per week from my parents when I went to sixth form so you're better off than me.

DW, I hate job seekers a lot more.

Agreed but it is a right at the moment whether some agree with it or not.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I sympathise with you Moh. EMA is your right and whatever you say won't be good enough as some members simply don't agree with the concept of EMA.

You do not have a 'right' to other peoples money, there is no such right.

As for extra money to get to and from college, how about getting a job if you can't fill in the gap? now its not desirable that you and your mother can not both afford that little bit extra when money is tight - but that is the price you pay and that we all pay if we follow the advice of the kind that Rosie has just given which is that people have rights to the money of others, the taxpayer in general.

Scrap EMA, cut waste and lower taxes is the lesson learnt.

[Catzsy]

You do not have a 'right' to other peoples money, there is no such right.

As for extra money to get to and from college, how about getting a job if you can't fill in the gap? now its not desirable that you and your mother can not both afford that little bit extra when money is tight - but that is the price you pay and that we all pay if we follow the advice of the kind that Rosie has just given which is that people have rights to the money of others, the taxpayer in general.

Scrap EMA, cut waste and lower taxes is the lesson learnt.

It is a right under current law. Just because you don't agree with it does not make it invalid.
When they scrap it it will no longer be a right - end of.

[qaxzsw]

I think they should get rid of EMA. I won't be eligible for it so why should my parents have to pay for other people to travel and on food and stuff. I know loads of people who don't spend it on what they should.

[Samantha]

I think they should get rid of EMA. I won't be eligible for it so why should my parents have to pay for other people to travel and on food and stuff. I know loads of people who don't spend it on what they should.

I think it's given to a far too big range of people.
My parents don't work, but if I didn't get it I wouldn't mind. I don't use it anyway, I have it all in my bank account and I will use it when I need it.
I live 3 miles from college I could walk that if I chose to but rather that I would get a bus or my dad would drive me.

So maybe some people who have better situations than me do use EMA correctly maybe people worse off than me do too, but it's coming to an end nothing we can do really. If they never have started it then no one would have missed it or needed it. We would have had to use our own money anyway, so people just have to try.

So I agree with you.

I know I should get a job but heho.

[Moh]

I love how people instantly think that people getting EMA are spending their money, even though my mum works and pays tax too.

I can imagine my mum works a lot harder than most parents, considering she does a lot of unpaid overtime.

As for getting a job, you must really not watch or read the news.

[Catzsy]

I love how people instantly think that people getting EMA are spending their money, even though my mum works and pays tax too.

I can imagine my mum works a lot harder than most parents, considering she does a lot of unpaid overtime.

Totally agree. Most people complaining or their families have had the benefit of a free national health service, a free education and been paid child benefit at the least. This is all paid with other people's money. Somehow, they seem to forget that.