{"id":4117,"date":"2025-06-20T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:32:04","slug":"education-maintenance-allowance-ema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/2025\/06\/20\/education-maintenance-allowance-ema\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is a weekly payment of \u00a330, paid directly to young people aged 16 to 19 who continue in full-time education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who can get EMA<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can get EMA if you&#8217;re aged between 16 and 19 and want to continue your education at school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can apply for EMA if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">you go to a school in the Renfrewshire Council area<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">your household earns less than the income thresholds listed below<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">your course is at least 21 hours of guided learning per week<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">you agree and sign a valid learning agreement with your school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A learning agreement sets out what&#8217;s expected of you around attendance and coursework. You can\u00a0find out more by contacting:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ema.els@renfrewshire.gov.uk\">ema.els@renfrewshire.gov.uk<\/a>\u00a0or call 0300 300 0300<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4118\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/2025\/06\/20\/education-maintenance-allowance-ema\/ema\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/riverbraeschool\/uploads\/sites\/2604\/2025\/06\/20132955\/EMA.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"904,1260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPad Air 2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1750429108&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"EMA\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/riverbraeschool\/uploads\/sites\/2604\/2025\/06\/20132955\/EMA-215x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/riverbraeschool\/uploads\/sites\/2604\/2025\/06\/20132955\/EMA-735x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4118\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/riverbraeschool\/uploads\/sites\/2604\/2025\/06\/20132955\/EMA-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/riverbraeschool\/uploads\/sites\/2604\/2025\/06\/20132955\/EMA-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/riverbraeschool\/uploads\/sites\/2604\/2025\/06\/20132955\/EMA-735x1024.jpg 735w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/riverbraeschool\/uploads\/sites\/2604\/2025\/06\/20132955\/EMA-768x1070.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/public\/riverbraeschool\/uploads\/sites\/2604\/2025\/06\/20132955\/EMA.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is a weekly payment of \u00a330, paid directly to young people aged 16 to 19 who continue in full-time education. Who can get EMA You can get EMA if you&#8217;re aged between 16 and 19 and want to continue your education at school. You can apply for EMA if: you go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/2025\/06\/20\/education-maintenance-allowance-ema\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7915,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions\/4119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/riverbraeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}