Local Partners and Administrators

Welcome to your section of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) website. These pages are designed to provide you with information to promote and administer EMA.

This section of the website is dedicated to keeping you up to date with the Learner Support Service. We are updating this website regularly so please keep visiting for the latest information.

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Last Updated: 20th April 09

EMA application process for 2009/10 and the EMA Guarantee

Learners returning for the 2009/10 EMA Year who have been paid EMA during the 2008/09 academic year do not need to reapply. The EMA Guarantee means that they will be eligible for support at the same level until the end of the academic year in which they turn 19.

Please be aware that some learners may choose to reapply if their household income has reduced.

Learners who received an EMA payment during 2008/09 will automatically receive a continuing entitlement letter and an EMA Agreement before the end of May 2009. As a learning provider, you will use this continuing entitlement letter in exactly the same way as the EMA Notice of Entitlement, i.e. to add the learner to the payment system using the Learner Support Reference Number.

We will be writing to learner’s parents or carers shortly to explain this process.

Learners who do not receive a letter and an Agreement by the end of May should contact the Learner Support Helpline on 0800 121 8989.

E2E learners

Those learners who are on E2E programmes of study that will extend beyond 31 August 2009 will be sent a letter outlining their options nearer the time.

Learners who are enrolled on E2E programmes of study that will not extend beyond 31 August 2009 and who have not received a full income assessment in the 2008/09 EMA year are not eligible for the EMA Guarantee and should reapply for support in 2009/10.

Learner Support Toolkit

Please click here for the Learner Support Toolkit which aims to give an introduction to the Learner Support Programme and how it provides financial support for learners aged 16+.