Students on EMA

[RM-Taylor]

Anyone second/third year college students recieved their £100 EMA September bonus yet?

Got paid normal two weeks, but missing the extra £100

Need this money to pay for the trips to Leeds and Hartlepool during October.

Anyone got there's yet?

 

[mattb]

whoever came up with the idea for EMAs is a Grade A CVNT

 

[Seasider78]

whoever came up with the idea for EMAs is a Grade A CVNT

seconded money could be spent far better elsewhere

 

[Frutos]

Need this money to pay for the trips to Leeds and Hartlepool during October

Are you meant to spend your EMA money on trips to football matches (serious question, I don't know how all these handouts are supposed to be used)?

 

[Seasider78]

Are you meant to spend your EMA money on trips to football matches (serious question, I don't know how all these handouts are supposed to be used)?

Remember when the rest of us at college slaved at Tesco in the evenings for our beer money? Well not anymore they introduced EMA or essentially turn up for the course YOU HAVE DECIDED TO DO and we will pay you for it. Turn up a lot and you will get a bonus.

I am currently negotiating a bonus with my boss as I managed to work every day I was contracted to last week

EMA = a f***ing joke and waste of taxpayers money

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Remember when the rest of us at college slaved at Tesco in the evenings for our beer money? Well not anymore they introduced EMA or essentially turn up for the course YOU HAVE DECIDED TO DO and we will pay you for it. Turn up a lot and you will get a bonus.

I am currently negotiating a bonus with my boss as I managed to work every day I was contracted to last week

EMA = a f***ing joke and waste of taxpayers money

So every 16-18 yo student gets this then, just as every undergraduate student gets a maintenance and/or special support grant?

 

[Seasider78]

What is EMA?
Basically, EMA is cash in your hands to help you carry on learning. If you’re 16, 17 or 18 and have left, or are about to leave, compulsory education, then it could be for you.

EMA spells fewer money worries with up to £30 a week during term time – leaving you to get on with your studies.

To find out if you are eligible, see ‘EMA: how much, how often’.


What could EMA do for you?
EMA is paid straight into your bank account Whatever you decide to do, EMA could help you with the cost of books, travel, equipment or anything useful to continue learning.

It’s worth up to £30 a week, and it’s paid straight into your bank account, not to your parents or your college.

What’s the catch?
There’s no catch. As long as you attend regularly and work hard, there should be no problem in receiving EMA

University grants are generally to fund living costs as most leave the family home at 16-18 I question whether students need £30 a week for books etc. I studied at college without a grant as did many others and believe this is a waste of taxpayers money. I can understand if anyone needs travel money to go to a college of their choice and travel vouchers could be given.

Unfortunately though most of this money given is not used for the purpose intended as this thread best demonstrates

 

[Gazwag]

Need this money to pay for the trips to Leeds and Hartlepool during October.

I got a job at that age to fund my away matches

 

[Walkers Cajun Squirrel]

EMA is a good idea in theory not in practice.

If it is used for college and university students to but things that will help them on their course and earn more money in the future so they can pay more tax then it is good. But most people don't. Most people (that I no) spent it on booze. Which will most likely make them fail their exams and pay less tax.

 

[sten_super]

It seems that it was bought in with the intention of effective paying kids to actually go to lessons. How else can they justify up to £30 a week, cash, straight into a child's bank account?

As others have said, it goes straight on leisure activities in the vast majority of cases.

 

[Uncle C]

It seems that it was bought in with the intention of effective paying kids to actually go to lessons. How else can they justify up to £30 a week, cash, straight into a child's bank account?

As others have said, it goes straight on leisure activities in the vast majority of cases.

Its a cheap was of keeping unemployment figures down.

 

[The Auditor]

So every 16-18 yo student gets this then, just as every undergraduate student gets a maintenance and/or special support grant?

Not everyone...Its all means tested...so earn a half sensible wages and your kids get nought but student loans

 

[The Auditor]

What is EMA?
Unfortunately though most of this money given is not used for the purpose intended as this thread best demonstrates

Give credit at certain retailer/service providers as very little of this money is used for educational purposes

 

[Badger]

In my day (about 6 years ago) I had to work about 8 hours in a shop to get £30, I earnt my Friday night out!

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

What is EMA?
University grants are generally to fund living costs as most leave the family home at 16-18.

And are available to undergraduate students (on a sliding scale) where the family income is below a certain level, whether they are living at home or elsewhere. Isn't EMA similar - with a sliding scale of family income up to £30K, above which you get nothing? You only get £30/pw if the family income is below £20.5K I believe.

I question whether students need £30 a week for books etc.

Is this only what EMA is designed for? My understanding, albeit from our kids, is that it's also intended to help with living costs in low income families where a student may otherwise have to leave school at 16 in order contribute financially.

I studied at college without a grant as did many others and believe this is a waste of taxpayers money

As did I, my wife and our kids but then we could afford to. I can remember school friends who left after O levels due to financial pressures at home.

I can understand if anyone needs travel money to go to a college of their choice and travel vouchers could be given.

Assuming, there is a feasible public transport service available. The two preferred and nearest 6th form colleges to us are not served by any direct service and attendance at any after school activities is not possible without other means of transport. There is no obligation on LEA's to provide school transport for 6th form/college students btw.

Unfortunately though most of this money given is not used for the purpose intended as this thread best demonstrates.

Maybe so but isn't this a personal responsibility and choice issue, a bit like people not spending child benefit on their kids etc?

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Not everyone...Its all means tested...so earn a half sensible wages and your kids get nought but student loans

I know.

 

[RM-Taylor]

Despite all the resonses, not had one from a student yet.

 

[seagulls4ever]

Hardly a waste of tax payers money. Its not like its given to everyone, only those families on low income. TBH I rely heavely on it because the monthly outgoings of my household and more than whats coming in each month. £30 a week doesn't even fully cover my College expenses.

 

[Walkers Cajun Squirrel]

Despite all the resonses, not had one from a student yet.

EMA is a good idea in theory not in practice.

If it is used for college and university students to but things that will help them on their course and earn more money in the future so they can pay more tax then it is good. But most people don't. Most people (that I no) spent it on booze. Which will most likely make them fail their exams and pay less tax.

There ya go

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Russ getting £30 a week (term time only) EMA doesn't cover the £900 a year I had to fork out for 5 years for bus transport costs to send him to secondary school. The allowance is means tested and is an incentive not to drop out of the system. Basically no-one will give you a job nowadays unless you are over 18 so it is an alternative to being on the dole.