{"id":4734,"date":"2025-09-25T13:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coatbridgehighschool\/?page_id=4734"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:57:24","slug":"education-maintenance-allowance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coatbridgehighschool\/parents-2\/education-maintenance-allowance\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Maintenance Allowance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is an allowance of \u00a330 per week, which can be paid to eligible students who stay on in education after the age of 16 years.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Apply<\/h3>\n<p>Follow the link below to see up to date information and apply.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk\/schools-and-learning\/additional-support-families-and-children\/education-maintenance-allowance\"><strong>Education Maintenance Allowance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your child may be eligible if they are&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>16 years of age or over before 30 September 2025, you may be eligible for an EMA from the beginning of the August school term. Applications must be submitted by 30 September 2025\u00a0for backdated payments to be made.<\/li>\n<li>16 years of age after 1\u00a0October 2025\u00a0and before 28\u00a0February 2026, you may be eligible for an EMA from January 2026.\u00a0Applications must be submitted by 28\u00a0February 2026\u00a0for backdated payments to be made.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Parents income must also fall under the income threshold. (See below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4735\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/coatbridgehighschool\/uploads\/sites\/37491\/2025\/09\/25135530\/EMA-Threshold-300x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/coatbridgehighschool\/uploads\/sites\/37491\/2025\/09\/25135530\/EMA-Threshold-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/coatbridgehighschool\/uploads\/sites\/37491\/2025\/09\/25135530\/EMA-Threshold-624x323.png 624w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/coatbridgehighschool\/uploads\/sites\/37491\/2025\/09\/25135530\/EMA-Threshold.png 712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is an allowance of \u00a330 per week, which can be paid to eligible students who stay on in education after the age of 16 years. Apply Follow the link below to see up to date information and apply. Education Maintenance Allowance Your child may be eligible if they are&#8230; 16 years of age or over before 30 September 2025, you may be eligible for an EMA<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coatbridgehighschool\/parents-2\/education-maintenance-allowance\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62052,"featured_media":0,"parent":4177,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4734","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coatbridgehighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coatbridgehighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coatbridgehighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coatbridgehighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coatbridgehighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coatbridgehighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4737,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coatbridgehighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4734\/revisions\/4737"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coatbridgehighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/coatbridgehighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}