EMA
 

Are you mad about the whole mess up?
I need to pay for stuff at college, except I cant :shrug:

Plus I have to put up with having a packet of crisps (which has to last me until 5pm D:)

Also I cant treat myself D:

It's annoying :( when's it all sorting out?

Its insane isnt it?!
Our college are giving out £40 loans until its sorted, but thats not gonna cover it I dont think. I havent even sent off my forms back yet so god knows when mine will start!

My EMA stops in January anyway... I have to move on to something else as it stops when you turn 19 =/

End of October I think

I haven't applied for mine yet :dog:

Its annoying me too, apparently there will be 10 weeks until we see any cash

so who is affected is it regions or your surname or everyone?

Everyone, the company that does EMA changed during summer and all the computers are messed up and nothings getting processed.

Everyone I think

Sorry to sound dumb, but what is the EMA?

oh.. well i only just applied wonder if i will still get processed

Yeah it will, be, we will get backpay too

I was going to apply but I don't qualify as my parents "earn too much" or something..I wanted some money :( lol

Dunt your family have to earn under sumin per year. My family earns over the number so I can't get it.

Education maintenance allowance.

Get a weekly payment for attending college/post-16 education if your parents don't earn much.

Same :)

EMA = Educational Maintenance Allowance

depending on your household income you get £10, £20 or £30 a week for being in college

Wow how much do you get about then?

up to £30 a week
and up to £500 in bonuses.

but i dont get full amount as i am just under the limit and all of it goes on my train pass to get to college anyway

What mix up? We haven't been told anything here.. I should be getting mine and my return bonus on Monday :sad: Oh and I re-applied for it in the summer holidays.

£30 a week but it depends on how much your rents earn.

i thought they got rid of the bonus for returning to college... thats what we got told anyway

oooh whats happened?
we haven't been told anything about it ;/

Ahh well, everyone will be getting back pay just before christmas, so it will probably work out for the best.

Oh, it's on our EMA calender sheet and the letter that came back after I re-applied said I get it.. maybe it's different for Wales?

Some people I know are getting theres now ...

I never got it though, parents earn too much :sad:

Its only £30 though, can people honestly survive on that each week?! :conf2::shocked:

I never got that as well Tom

When your 16 in sixth form you would. Well i will be. I would well want 30 quid a week, my rents buy food and **** obvs.

LOL but even when I was in college £30 wouldn't have even been a night out, thats before food at college and shopping as well :joker:

Its driving my dad insane xD

My brother is in the middle of his driving lessons, and he used to be able to pay it before school broke up with his EMA, now he keeps asking to borrow money xD x

Yeah but the point of it is, with me I get no money from my mum because she doesn't earn any money because she doesn't work. My EMA needs to go towards buses and food because my mum cant chip in, people that cant get EMA don't need it. Their families can chip in with bus fair or give a lift in the morning.
With this none EMAness my mum is having to give me money to get to college and its coming straight out of our food budget for the week.

Some parents don't give much money away though and some parents might be about a fiver over the maximum range, so can't afford much anyway. Its not as clear cut as you put.

I fail to believe that though, if my mum can give me money and she is earning nothing then if both parents are earning money they can spare £20 - £30 a week. The only reason they cant afford it is that they are giving money to other things rather than their kids... then thats not the governments problem. The whole point of EMA is to give some relief to people who genuinly cannot afford it.

this is such a bummer. although i'm coping, and I'm presuming that we'll get backpayments, which is gonna be amazing.. does anyone actually know how long it's gonna take?

You'll get back-payments, yeah.

I remember when I received EMA there was like 3 weeks where they couldn't provide it, and then it went in alltogether.

i've been at college for 3 weeks now, the first weeks EMA was stopped because i apparently missed a lesson, which i didnt then last weeks was stopped again for the same reason, the first weeks was backdated but i still have yet to recieve the 2nd and 3rd weeks payment, i'm sure they dont want to give me any :bawling:

I'm glad, it's saving up for me for christmas, in a roundabout way.

I get a huge college bursary instead! :cheer2: Free money and its much, much more than EMA! :whistle:

It's not fair at all. I need the money too but I'm not allowed to get it. :rolleyes: I really do find it extremely unfair, everyone should get it.