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Should the Goverment get rid of EMA?
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Do you think it wrong if the Goverment scraps the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)?
This small weekly sum must be very beneficial to some students of poorer families in enabling them to stay on school.
Although abused by some, this money is used by some students to by pens, pencils, exercise books and text books etc, in some cases it is used in transport fares to enable them to get to school, also food.
This pittance is classed as expenses for the students, and the MPs should know all about them, at least the students won't be travelling 1st class.
Query, If these youngsters finished school at 16, how much would they be paid in "Job Seekers Allowance" while they looked for a job?
Do you think it wrong if the Goverment scraps the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)?
This small weekly sum must be very beneficial to some students of poorer families in enabling them to stay on school.
Although abused by some, this money is used by some students to by pens, pencils, exercise books and text books etc, in some cases it is used in transport fares to enable them to get to school, also food.
This pittance is classed as expenses for the students, and the MPs should know all about them, at least the students won't be travelling 1st class.
Query, If these youngsters finished school at 16, how much would they be paid in "Job Seekers Allowance" while they looked for a job?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.ema will be replaced by an enhanced learner support fund – this is administered by the individual school or college allowing them to make discretionary payments to those students they believe to be in greatest need.
young people who are currently receiving the ema will continue to receive it to the end of this academic year. those who are continuing their education next september and need financial help with learning costs may be eligible for support from the enhanced discretionary learner support fund.
if you are aged 16 or 17 it is unlikely that you will have worked for long enough to pay sufficient ni contributions to get contribution-based jsa.
if you are an unemployed 16 or 17 year old you may be able to get income-based jsa for a short period in special circumstances. for example, if one of the following applies:
• you are forced to live away from your parents and will suffer severe hardship if you do not get jsa
• you are a member of a couple who are responsible for a child
young people who are currently receiving the ema will continue to receive it to the end of this academic year. those who are continuing their education next september and need financial help with learning costs may be eligible for support from the enhanced discretionary learner support fund.
if you are aged 16 or 17 it is unlikely that you will have worked for long enough to pay sufficient ni contributions to get contribution-based jsa.
if you are an unemployed 16 or 17 year old you may be able to get income-based jsa for a short period in special circumstances. for example, if one of the following applies:
• you are forced to live away from your parents and will suffer severe hardship if you do not get jsa
• you are a member of a couple who are responsible for a child
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Unfortunately some who get it currently don't seem to need it other than to feed a habit. Hopefully the system Ankou has mentioned will ensure those who really need it still get the help.
Unfortunately some who get it currently don't seem to need it other than to feed a habit. Hopefully the system Ankou has mentioned will ensure those who really need it still get the help.
All I know is some of my pupils were driven to school by their parents and received free school meals and wrote about their foreign holidays. Some of those over 16 didn't turn up to school very often so they were hardly in full time education. I agree that was over 10 years ago but the system was abused then as it appears to be now.
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After a lifetime of working, 80 hour weeks, 12 hour shifts, 7 days etc etc, I am now on benefits due to poor health.
My youngest son, 16, is doing very well in school, maths and sciences especially, and wants to go to university preceded by 6th form college.
I am at my wits end trying to figure out the finances without stigmatizing him as "poor".
The abolition of EMA is very worrying and callous in my opinion.
My youngest son, 16, is doing very well in school, maths and sciences especially, and wants to go to university preceded by 6th form college.
I am at my wits end trying to figure out the finances without stigmatizing him as "poor".
The abolition of EMA is very worrying and callous in my opinion.
Paying them £30.pw is a pittance compared with other handouts. As most of them would not continue their education what is likely to happen to them. Maybe turn to crime, sit around causing trouble, or under the mothers apron springs driving her nuts. It may be different if there were jobs about for everyone but they're not.
If they missed one day of a week there allowance is stopped for that week. At least the majority of the kids are doing something useful more than can be said for the millions collecting their dole and down the betting shop.
If they missed one day of a week there allowance is stopped for that week. At least the majority of the kids are doing something useful more than can be said for the millions collecting their dole and down the betting shop.
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My nephew and niece on my husband's side of the family,are from a single mum household,and have been raised on benefits(her ex husband pleaded "poverty") and financial help from the rest of the family. They qualify for ema,and one uses it for phone minutes,and the other saved it all up to buy a guitar!!! ..It's paid directly to these children,not their parents,also through the summer and a bonus at Christmas!!...I stayed on at school from 16-18 to improve my education in the hope of getting a better job. Too many nowadays are looking for the £30 per week pocket money:-(
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