{"id":3231,"date":"2016-10-12T17:45:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T16:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lanark.s-lanark.sch.uk\/?page_id=3231"},"modified":"2021-08-26T00:21:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T23:21:19","slug":"education-maintenance-allowance-ema","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/parents-information\/education-maintenance-allowance-ema\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMA provides financial support to 16-19 year olds who want to continue learning. The EMA is a Scottish Government fund to support young people from lower income families to continue with their studies.\u00a0 Around 33,000 students in Scotland receive the allowance.<\/p>\n<p>You daughter\/ son could be eligible if your family earns up to \u00a324,421 a year, or \u00a326,884, if they have siblings. The payment is based on excellent attendance and on your daughter\/son fulfilling the Senior School Learning Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Renewals require a new application form and a school learning agreement to be completed each session.<\/p>\n<p>To apply on-line go to:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/ema\">https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/ema<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to find out more information please contact Miss Pollock, DHT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMA provides financial support to 16-19 year olds who want to continue learning. The EMA is a Scottish Government fund to support young people from lower income families to continue with their studies.\u00a0 Around 33,000 students in Scotland receive the allowance. You daughter\/ son could be eligible if your family earns up to \u00a324,421 a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/parents-information\/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":6350,"featured_media":0,"parent":218,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10851,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3231\/revisions\/10851"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/lanarkbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}