If you're a higher education student, did you know you may be eligible for EMA?

Question

EMA (Education Maintenance Allowance)

EMA is paid weekly, it could be £10, £20 or £30... depending on your household income. It's a great help, and this is why i'm promoting it!

http:/www.ema.direct.gov.uk/

Answer 1

EMA is a good idea, but I think the money should go straight to the parents account...

I know plenty of people who used it to go out on the town or threw it away some other way.

It's unfair of the government to assume that people whose parents are earning above the threshold for receiving EMA will be given £30 a week.

Answer 2

I get EMA & defo helps out :) I'd recommend it if you can get it

Answer 3

Yeah it's great for those who do get it. Unfortunately they do not consider travel costs as well. I am not elligable for EMA and I have to spend £25 a week getting to and from college next year. Last year it was the same except i got £10 EMA. All that is fine but there is loads of students who get £30 a week and don't spend a penny of it going to college or on college equipment etc.

Just because my parents earn so much money doesn't mean that they give me £30 a week. They don't. They have bills and lots of debts. By the time they have paid the bills and debts every month they have less then the parents whose children get £30 a week. EMA doesn't take anything other than income into account so it ends up very unfair on people like me.

Answer 4

yes