dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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Ive only just found out about this:
What is Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)?
EMA is a weekly payment of £10, £20 or £30 a week depending on your household income. The money is intended to help with the day-to-day costs when you stay on at school or college – such as travel, books and equipment for your course.
It is paid directly into your bank account if you stay on in education at school or college after your GCSEs, and is available during term time for any academic or vocational course (up to level 3) which involves at least 12 hours of guided learning per week.
Sounds like easy money 
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
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Sounds like a fcuking joke to me, so this is where our taxes go, scroungers, illegal immegrants, and fcuking dosser fcuking students.
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gianluigi
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Registered: 9th Mar 05
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depending on your parents income, determains how much you get. loads of people in my 6th form were getting it. one boy who's family is rich enough, his dad dealt in cash for a year and didnt put half the money through his books just so his son could get EMA  cunt, that really pissed me off. there i am, entitled to EMA, but didnt take it.
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Gg_mf
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Registered: 10th Oct 05
Location: Brighouse
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I got it when i went to six form and to he honest it really helped for travel fees, and I only got it because my mum is a single parent.
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Andy Stocker
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Registered: 31st Aug 00
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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My GF  gets £30 a week
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Gg_mf
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Registered: 10th Oct 05
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I used to get £30 a year, but that was two years ago. + if u attend all of your lessons you get a £50 bonus per term.
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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She gets £30 a week plus £100 bonus for going to lessons 
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Gg_mf
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Registered: 10th Oct 05
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Wow bonus has gone up quite abit.
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a_j_mair
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Registered: 23rd Jan 04
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is a joke, i am never entitled to these things
few people got this when i was in 6th yr, mostly spent on drink and drugs 
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Jake
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Registered: 24th Jan 05
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I wasnt intitled to it because I finished school a year after they introduced it.
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Ally
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Registered: 2nd Jul 03
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But surely u stay on at college to study ... not to get paid for doing it?
Piss take really.
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Jake
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Registered: 24th Jan 05
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It's to encourage the ghetto fabulous to stay on to education.
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dazbircher
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Registered: 6th Dec 05
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they brought this out just as i left college to go to uni. my gf currently get £35 a week as none of her parents work due to health reasons. plus she just got a £100 bonus after christmas. apparently she gets a bonus before the summer holidays, at the end of september and just before christmas too :/ alot of money for little work
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Carl
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Registered: 9th May 04
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Loads of people i know used to get it, one of them was well rich but his parents had split up and he only lived with his mum, his dad was some kind of police chief. Its a joke.
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Poot
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Registered: 30th Jan 05
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I get £10 per week for full attendance at coll, and if we complete the assignments and hand them in by due date, recieve the £100 bonus.
through 2 years in college, i can recieve 3 
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Half Pint
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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I'll give your mrs a bonus dave 
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fiestakidda
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Registered: 23rd Oct 02
Location: Darlington (Come On Boro)
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I used to work for them, it's a bloody joke.
Even if you win the lottery your kids are entitled to it!!
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vibrio
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
Sounds like a fcuking joke to me, so this is where our taxes go, scroungers, illegal immegrants, and fcuking dosser fcuking students.
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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You've paid taxes though Ross, you don't go out on the lash everynight do you?
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MJ
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This really pisses me off. this is the same for student loan and fees. Just cos my mum and dad work and get gd money i suffer for it. i work 25hrs a week and go to uni and i only get the basic loan, i dont ask my parents for anythink and i pay reant and drive to uni everyday. this means i have to pay student fees and other stuff even tho my parents dont pay for it at all i do. i understand if they are single parents or cant work for reasons, but not when people cant be bothered to get a job is just plan lazy.
i have to have 2 jobs and work so much because otherwise i wouldnt be able to live, not even run a car. i pay my taxes for wot, people u are lazy to not work where's the justice
rant over 
[Edited on 03-02-2006 by mark_jarman1]
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a_j_mair
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Registered: 23rd Jan 04
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quote:
Originally posted by mark_jarman1
This really pisses me off. this is the same for student loan and fees. Just cos my mum and dad work and get gd money i suffer for it. i work 25hrs a week and go to uni and i only get the basic loan, i dont ask my parents for anythink and i pay reant and drive to uni everyday. this means i have to pay student fees and other stuff even tho my parents dont pay for it at all i do. i understand if they are single parents or cant work for reasons, but not when people cant be bothered to get a job is just plan lazy.
i have to have 2 jobs and work so much because otherwise i wouldnt be able to live, not even run a car. i pay my taxes for wot, people u are lazy to not work where's the justice
rant over
[Edited on 03-02-2006 by mark_jarman1]
i agree with this statment
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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It's £30 a week. It's not even enough money to live off of. Get over it.
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Butler
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Registered: 2nd Jun 05
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I get it, still think its wrong but im not gonna say no. Then again I never recieve anyway considering the amount im absent
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gianluigi
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Registered: 9th Mar 05
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fuck this EMA stuff. i was entitled but i didnt take it. Just to be persuded to go to school, no point, i went to 6th form cos i wanted to go, and i wanted to do well, i motivated my self, and i come out of it with the best grades i could get, i dont think £30 a week would change my B in business to an A. its bollocks, all the people bragging at the end of the month when they got their money, wow you're really fucking important.
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