{"id":193,"date":"2022-02-09T13:08:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/mhwbpandc\/?page_id=193"},"modified":"2022-02-09T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:12:41","slug":"ema","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/mhwbpandc\/parent-supports\/reducing-the-cost-of-the-school-day\/ema\/","title":{"rendered":"EMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)<\/h2>\n<p>For More information go to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.north-ayrshire.gov.uk\/education-and-learning\/grants-and-allowances\/education-maintenance-allowance.aspx\">Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) (north-ayrshire.gov.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"page-body\">\n<p>EMA is a weekly allowance for young people.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0provides financial\u00a0assistance to help young people from low income households to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>stay on at school<\/li>\n<li>continue their education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>EMAs are available to young people between 16 and 19 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>They are assessed based on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>gross taxable household income<\/li>\n<li>the number of dependent children living within the household<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8216;Dependent children&#8217; are young people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>up to the age of 16<\/li>\n<li>between the ages of 16 and 25 and in further or higher education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You must make a new application for every academic year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) For More information go to: Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) (north-ayrshire.gov.uk) EMA is a weekly allowance for young people. It\u00a0provides financial\u00a0assistance to help young people from low income households to: stay on at school continue their education EMAs are available to young people between 16 and 19 years of age. They are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/mhwbpandc\/parent-supports\/reducing-the-cost-of-the-school-day\/ema\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EMA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6652,"featured_media":0,"parent":189,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-193","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/mhwbpandc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/mhwbpandc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/mhwbpandc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/mhwbpandc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/mhwbpandc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/mhwbpandc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/mhwbpandc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193\/revisions\/198"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/mhwbpandc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/mhwbpandc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}