ema

Grrr all my mates at college are getting £30 a week for ema!

My grandparents, who i live with, are too rich so i get none at all and they don't give me any of it!

So all my mates are out buying all these clothes and makeup and shit with all this money and all i want is a bit of cash so i can buy a bike and a few festival tickets for next summer.

Pfft

 

whats ema ?

i usedta be jealous when all the kids i did gym with got their child benefit/allowance whatever its called to spent weekly/monthly....now mam turned round told me she saved all mine and i have enough for deposit on a house / car / travels

 

Education Maintainance Allowance, a very worthwhile benefit for children from low income families. Do you not get any pocket money Shirley, or any clothes bought for you by your grandparents?

 

Thought about getting a job at all?

 

i thought this was a follow on to alice who der fucks alice

 

Well its a fucking life saver for me, with my bro at uni n that needin cash of me maw, i need it to be able to get text books and keep strings on my violin.

 

i cant get an ema coz it would get taken off of me, £30 i could fucking have, and the arseholes are so stingey, getting it taken off of you after 5 absences from school, *grumbles*

 

Paid to go to school, blimey they don't know they're born, and yes they are right to stop the cash if you don't go.

 

aye, where's the incentive if you get paid and you don't go...

 

Yes, it should only be paid if people attend school. It's quite a clever benefit, since children from more deprived families are more likely to truant....