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amiee
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God, I give up. Some people are just idiots.
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let's go dancing for survival, to the lyric of your youth
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ashles
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You wouldn't be complaining if you got EMA! <br> I get £30 a week because I live with my mum and don't see my dad, and my mum's income is around £3000 p.a, and she can't afford to buy me everything I need for college as well as my younger sister's stuff. <br> So yeah it is fair, but some people don't need £30 a week, I could manage without but it's great that I can get it, it takes a lot of stress of my mum not having to buy my textbooks and stuff.
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luckybuhda
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i agree that ema is delt with in the wrong way, but cant beleive how ignorant some people are, just becuase certian people dont earn a decent wage doesnt mean that they are lazy! infact usually the lower paid jobs require more hard work than the high paid ones. i get paid 4.85 an hour to run around after customers and its bloody hard work! i do qualify for ema because my parents dont live together, if they did i wouldnt get it as my dad earns over 60k but my mum obviously earns less but doesnt mean shes lazy and nither am i, we both work and im glad i get ema cos the amount my dad has to pay on taxes (40%) should be coming back to me but the majority of it will unfortunatly be paying for people that cant be bothered to go to college and relay on others to pay for them to live. lol got abit carried away here but you cant be so naive to think everyone getting ema has lazy parents and im sure that all the parents who dont earn enough and therefore there kids get ema would much rather have a better wage and give the child the money themselves than relay on the government to pay for them.
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luckybuhda
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yeah, the bonuses are rediculous and i think instead of just giving it to students that attendlessons they should look at there grades and see if they have met there targets, also why not just pay the equivilent of 100 but in the form of bus passes and stuff or to go towards college trips. then again this would still not work cos the people would then use the money they would have used to pay for there bus passes and use it on alcohol lol. i myself do get ema and admit that non of it has gone towards anything to do with my education (except ucas application) but seeing as i pay my taxes and so do myparents why shouldnt i get some of it back i get taxed 24% of my wages and i'm 18 thats 150 a month i get taken off me and only get 120 ema a month so i'm still 30 pound down even with there help. how annoying!
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Me like a lot of people see that EMA is a fucking unfair system...what because my parents work hard to earn over £30,000 and because i don't live in a shitty house i don't get any money... 
