Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) Article Discussion

bestpud

DailyClicker wrote: »

Sorry! What did you want me to answer?

The best place for questions and answers about the EMA is this website:

[FONT=&quot]http://ema.direct.gov.uk/[/FONT]

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

There are several ways of scrolling back up the page a little to see the question I was referring to:

You can go to the scrolling bar on the right of your screen, or you can use the scrolling wheel on a mouse, or if you use a touch pad, there should be a little scrolling bar to the one side which will move the screen up if you run your finger along it, or you can click and drag the cursor within the scrolling bar mentioned above.

There are probably alternate ways, so if none of those suit, maybe refer to your computer manual or google it?

It's worth learning as people will think you are a bit dim if you fail to read older replies properly.

aaranj

999 wrote: »

Skylight. The above is not correct. The actual back dating rules are shown below.

Back payment of EMA
23. A young person may apply for EMA payments at any time:

• where an application is made after the start of the learning programme, and the application is received by the HAPB within four weeks of the start of the learning programme, payments may be backdated to the start of the learning programme;
• where an application is received more than four weeks after the start of the learning programme, payments may be backdated to the date on which the HAPB received the application;

Basically for most FE courses that start 1st September your daughter has until 28th September to submit an application. The application does not have to be correctly completed either - just make sure it is received by the 28th.

As there is a large backlog this year I would send the application by recorded delivery.

No it doesn't matter if she works.

Good Luck.

i stand corrected.
thank you 999 for pointing out my mistake
however i will be complaining to the ema helpline as it was them who told me that ema could not be backdated.


sorry Skylight

sharky007

Apologies if this has already been posted, but there is an EMA Myspace now with further info - http://www.myspace.com/my_ema


I recieve the full amount of EMA and that will continue into year 2 of my college course. It is brilliant for me because it pays for my dinner money and course equipment, but most of my EMA will go into my Uni fund this year. :T I am so glad that part time jobs don't apply to the income limit too - as I love my weekend job!

Savvy_Sue

It's probably somewhere earlier in this post, but someone told me last night that even if your parental income is over £30,000, you can still get EMA if the adults you live with didn't go to university themselves.

She's a mum whose income for last year is too high for her child to get EMA, although it's much lower in the current year. She found out that if she didn't already have a degree, child would be able to get it.

DailyClicker

I'm going to earn £20 a week from EMA, that'll buy my lunch at least for the week!

What are you going to spend yours on!?

It's sooo easy to apply, just type EMA into google!

Oldernotwiser

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

It's probably somewhere earlier in this post, but someone told me last night that even if your parental income is over £30,000, you can still get EMA if the adults you live with didn't go to university themselves.

She's a mum whose income for last year is too high for her child to get EMA, although it's much lower in the current year. She found out that if she didn't already have a degree, child would be able to get it.

I have to say that I've never heard of this and would be interested if you could provide a link. As EMA is available for academic courses, vocational training and basic skills E2E, it seems unlikey that a parent's graduate status would have any relevance at all.

Savvy_Sue

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

I have to say that I've never heard of this and would be interested if you could provide a link. As EMA is available for academic courses, vocational training and basic skills E2E, it seems unlikey that a parent's graduate status would have any relevance at all.

I've clicked around the EMA site without finding anything, I admit. My friend said it was a little known part of the system. I think we've thrown DS3's application forms away or I'd check on them.

My guess is that the parental graduate status IS considered relevant because of the government's obsession with getting everyone to University (OK, I exaggerate slightly ...) Clearly parents who didn't go to University themselves may need more convincing of the value of post 16 education. :rolleyes:

It is certainly true that you are asked about your parents' graduate status when you apply to UCAS, and that there is additional financial help available through many universities for such students. I've got a vague memory that we had to pay more for DS2's UCAS application because we're graduates than we would have done if we hadn't been.

Next time I see my friend I can check how she found this out: it's no use to her child because she IS a graduate!

999

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

I've clicked around the EMA site without finding anything, I admit. My friend said it was a little known part of the system. I think we've thrown DS3's application forms away or I'd check on them.

My guess is that the parental graduate status IS considered relevant because of the government's obsession with getting everyone to University (OK, I exaggerate slightly ...) Clearly parents who didn't go to University themselves may need more convincing of the value of post 16 education. :rolleyes:

It is certainly true that you are asked about your parents' graduate status when you apply to UCAS, and that there is additional financial help available through many universities for such students. I've got a vague memory that we had to pay more for DS2's UCAS application because we're graduates than we would have done if we hadn't been.

Next time I see my friend I can check how she found this out: it's no use to her child because she IS a graduate!

Sue -Parental education has no relevance at all to EMA eligibility. Can't comment on Uni applications

bestpud

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

It is certainly true that you are asked about your parents' graduate status when you apply to UCAS, and that there is additional financial help available through many universities for such students. I've got a vague memory that we had to pay more for DS2's UCAS application because we're graduates than we would have done if we hadn't been.

That wasn't the case in 2005 - everyone paid the same!

Personally, I can't see that being the case. I mean, how on earth could they justify charging more for the same application process?

999

It looks like the reported problems in dealing with EMA applications this year are very true. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/aug/29/furthereducation.1419education?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews