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"EMA"

I was just wondering if any of you recive EMA (Education Maintinence Allowance) and if you do, when does it usually get payed into your bank account?

I wish I was two years younger. My sister boasts to me about how she gets it.

Ah well, I can boast to her about my £120 a week salary. Yay.

It depends on how much your parents earn.
There's 10, 20 and 30 quid.

30 quid a week to go to college? Bloody hell!

I get 17 euro a week (about a tenner) to help me out in Uni.

Anonymous wrote:
> £10 a week don't make me go into college anymore, I just go in
> for a laugh and to learn of course. Plus you get £100 bonus
> every term which is class

That's not entirely true:

"You can get an extra £100 in January and July and again in October if you come back for a second year. To get the bonuses, you will need to demonstrate real progress and commitment to your course by meeting specific goals agreed between you and your school or college.
Bonus payments are made in January and July in the first year of your course and in September, January and July the year after that."

DW wrote:
> I can get it, but I don't.

Why the hell not? :0x

lcarus wrote:
> Seriously, scroungers. The government are paying you to stay on and
> learn.

Not really. People I know already intended to stay on, and if the government are paying them £30 anyway, I doubt they're ones to complain.

I must admit that my parents earn over £30,000 a year but my auntie is an accountant and she told us the ins and outs of how to screw it over so that it is only my mam living at home and not my dad.

So I basically get fraud EMA as my friend says.

...Oh well.

munn wrote:
> Whereas people whose parents were obviously louts at school (and the
> apple doesn't fall far from the tree) get 30 quid a week to buy CDs
> and games etc.
> Gay.

Screw you, moron.

munn wrote:
> Whereas people whose parents were obviously louts at school (and the
> apple doesn't fall far from the tree) get 30 quid a week to buy CDs
> and games etc.
> Gay.

Or perhaps our parents couldn't finish school, because of health reasons, and are now stuck in dead end jobs and can barely afford to put food on the table...

Put it this way, I get no money from my parents whatsoever.
Yes, they have more money, so they can afford tobuy me food blah blah blah, but how many of you spend the money you get on food to stay alive etc?

I hate it.
My dad earns like 50k a year, and my mum about 10k, but all I get from them is Christmas and birthday presents.
I have to earn the rest of my money myself.
Whereas people whose parents were obviously louts at school (and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree) get 30 quid a week to buy CDs and games etc.
Gay.