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Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)

Would you like some help with costs involved with attending College?

Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) can give you up to £30 a week to help you out with costs such as books, travel and equipment.

What is EMA?

EMA is a weekly allowance to help out with the cost of learning and to help you achieve more qualifications or vocational skills after 16.

You could receive an allowance of up to £30.00 per week if you are studying a full-time further education course at college and are aged 16, 17 or 18. Applications are means tested and for the 2007/2008 tax year, the household income limit was £30,810.

For further details go to http://www.direct.gov.uk/ema

Or email the Yeovil College EMA & ALG Officer info@yeovil.ac.uk