The way they decide who gets EMA and who doesnt needs to be changed IMO.
I come from a very low income, single parent household so I get the full £30 and and be honest, I dont know how I would cope without it. I cant depend on my mother for money, she needs it herself and the number of hours a week I can work are limited, i definately wouldnt earn enough for all the things i need every week like food, travel costs, supplies, driving lessons etc.
But when I see people at college who get the EMA money and just completely abuse eg forging teachers signatures on the forms we have to get signed every lesson so they can skip classes or have whole days off and they still get paid. Thankfully those people didnt pass their first year and/or dropped out.
Students who work their asses off day in, day out to acheive good grades IMO should be entitled to some kind of reward, i mean, they are the ones who will be going to universoty and will need all the financial help they can get. A combination of academic success and family income should be the deciding factors on who gets paid and how much gets paid. Why should the ones who abuse the system get rewards when those who put the work in get nothing?