EMA (Education Maintenance Allowance)

[Suspective]

You don't get that much with EMA. I'd be happy if I claimed the full 30.00

[Soy]

Money could be going to somewhere else more needed

[Neil]

No matter what the government says EMA is just not to help you in college, it's to keep you in college, you don't give people a £100 bonus at the end of the college year to help them in college, the money is obviously just so they can stop people going on Job Seekers or leaving education to work in McDonalds.

[Skajo]

No matter what the government says EMA is just not to help you in college, it's to keep you in college, you don't give people a £100 bonus at the end of the college year to help them in college, the money is obviously just so they can stop people going on Job Seekers or leaving education to work in McDonalds.

Another thing that should have stricter regulations as should EMA.

[StefanWolves]

I think the EMA regulations are already strict enough.

[Skajo]

I think the EMA regulations are already strict enough.

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It should be for maintaining education, not maintaining social lives. If you really want to learn, you'd find ways to get to college, you'd find ways. Many people I know only go to college because they don't want to get a job and get money for turning up 2 hours a day. Many people.

[StefanWolves]

I think that's the whole point of it.

You don't get ema if you don't meet targets or behave, so it's constantly giving you an incentive to learn, you don't get bonus at the end of the year if you don't have over 98% attendance.

Those are the rules that our tutors have gave us anyway, but I doubt that they will stick to them.

[Dan2nd]

I guess I fall into the 'spoilt little rich kid' category lol... sure I'm lucky I grew up in a fairly comfortable situation but as soon as I turned 18 my mum and dad said I had to pay my own way.. what did I do?... What do I think everyone should have to do? I got a part time job and spent my spare time in the evenings and weekends earning my own money.. and to be honest I'm glad I didn't get EMA because its thanks to my job that I've bought a nice car, can afford my insurence and can generally buy any pointless junk I don't need when I want... my friends on EMA on the other hand even though they get £30 a week still can barely afford a bus ride because they spend their 'earnings' on things they shouldn't be...

So meh claim EMA I don't care anymore it just might also be worth getting a job aswell though

[NIKKEE]

I think it's ridiculous, my parents only JUST make enough for me to not qualify.
Yet my friends mum who owns her own business apparently only makes £15,000 a year, yet she has a partner living with her with his own business earning at least £100,000 a year, yet she hasn't reporter this and that's illegal, the girls dad also pays money to them, and they live in a MASSIVE house and are out buying horses and what not, yet she still gets £30 a week.
We ALL go to school, and we ALL put in the effort.
Either everyone gets it or no-one at all.

Her mum is the type of women who knows how to work the system, so her precious daughter can stay at home, get tutors and still get this money.
Whilst poor old me has a 16 and a half hour part time job as well as being in full time education, and I have to study for myself with so little time.

And I still did better than her in my exams

[GommeInc]

It's come up alot before. The EMA system is terribly flawed and may as well not exist.

For a single child with a family income of £30,000 (£10 a week I think), then that's alot :/ That child shouldn't get it, £30,000 is alot for a family with one child.

The system should either be re-written or just abolished, the latter more tempting because the money doesn't always go towards anything educational, especially when schools and colleges are evolving to have equipment anyway. Bus passes are the only things the EMA should fork out for, for students, which students should never be given the money for - the passes could be distributed by the EMA using information on the college location and place of residence.