ema stopping

[mollykins]

Noone will get ema after this year for attending further education, do you think less people will go to college?

If so it'll only be a msall drop, but I do know of people that picked the three easiest a-level subjects or are doing gcse resits, to get the money because it's easier than getting a job.

[ChuckFickens]

Just to clarify....

You no longer annoyed at your mother for not going out and getting a job.... but you are now annoyed with her for earning money so you don't get the EMA?

[mollykins]

If she was going to get a job she should have got one that meant she earnt a reasonable amount rather than giving up, just after she'd earnt enough to make us over the limit.

[mollykins]

Why do you bother replying helen.

[dotty.]

I interviewed half a dozen 16 year old yesterday who applied for an 8 hour weekend job and a 4 hour sunday job, i took on 2 of them as they were very good and seemed just right, but all of them were bright, interesting, confident and intelligent, quite impressed really. They are all 6 at college or 6th form college and all were looking for extra money to fund their college course/travel hopes, it was very interesting to listen to them.

[Jimjam94]

I'm currently a student at a sixth form college in Cambridge. My mother cannot work because of her disability so I rely on EMA to fund my college. That includes the £20.50 a week bus ticket and anything I might need for college, which usually consists of textbooks and revision guides. Not all teenagers spend their EMA money on alcohol, fags and games. Don't stereotype every teenager who attends college as only being their for the money, that's a load of rubbish. I am going to college in the hope of going to university afterwards, because I want to achieve my full potential in life. But hey, since I'm 17 that must mean I spend all my money on booze, fags, clothes, games and god knows whatever else. Jesus christ will you listen to yourselfs, you sound ridiculous.

[Dris]

I understand JimJam how its affected you .I dont understand who youre not happy with though.Can you clarify so they might have the right of reply?

[tash666]

EMA is important, specially for low income families. Without it i believe some people will decide against college. Being 16+ plus and no income? We need responsibilies and our own finance instead of relying on mommy and daddy. I am a student myself and used to get EMA but now too old and can't get ALG. I am struggling and the only reason im staying on is because i only have 6 months left of my course but i seriously did concider quitting because my mom now has to struggle to may for my travel, food and equipment.

[Omega_Drifter]

well, guys, im new so im just gunna give my honest opinion. ive read it threw, and you seem to have agreed that people shouldn't be getting this money, shouldnt be gettin benefits, and shouldn't be going to the cinema or playing video games. why dont we set the record, here? being 16, you are still considered a child by law, but you STILL have to pay taxes on food, drinks, ciggaretes. so all theire life, if they have bought sometthing with pocket money, or money given to them, it goes back into they system. if they get paid to go to sixth form or college, this will hightn there job aspects, allowing them to make more money, wich will then be SPENT and go back into the system, and go to the next lot of students. Even if the students only go to sixth form to get the money, they swill still be learning, and therefore will be hightening there aspects . The system keeps itself working. to answer your question, molly, yes, less people will be going to college, but that means the ones who DO go there and sixth form will be the ones that will work hard and want to learn instead of just dossing. and all you guys out there talking about ema like its a bad thing, it was introduced so that it would lower teenagers like me into the world of reality, as when you get the ema, most parents will make you buy your own things, Etc., and this will get you away from most home comforts, and make you beggin to realise life wont just do what you want. life isnt your bitch. it wont bend over for you, you have to work hard to get anywere, and ema is given to you if you work hard and attend all lessons, punctually, so it makes you start working for it, more gently than being thrown into a nine till five job. because some people dont know what to do with there lives, and stay on in sixth form/college, to decide wht they want with there life, rather than working in a co-op, (wich, btw, you need 3 a*-c gcse's to work in) and if you people actually kept up with news, you would know EMA is being a

[Omega_Drifter]

(continued) abolished, but a new system in withc £30 is awarded to disabled parents, single parents, and people with under £20,000 income. it is paid DIRECTLY to the parents, and they decide weather or not to give it to children to buy a game, and can prioratise books, equipment etc.