Sentence examples for maintenance allowance i from inspiring English sources

Without the weekly education maintenance allowance, I wouldn't have been able to afford a bus pass to my sixth-form college.

This is a sentiment I can relate to; while running Save EMA, the campaign against the cutting of the educational maintenance allowance, I have met many "saints" in the wider student movement who would presume to speak on the behalf of those who can already speak for themselves.

The government has an intense phobia of young people but I will restore education maintenance allowance of £30 a week for young people who want to stay in education; and through a programme of loans and grants we will start work to reduce childcare costs.

I wanted to go to art school, I can't even afford A-levels now without EMA [education maintenance allowance]".

I was possibly more aware than others that a £6-a-week Educational Maintenance Allowance would not easily persuade parents or children to forgo the £15 that could be earned".

While I was at university there were student protests against rising tuition fees and education maintenance allowance cuts.

She said: "I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people".

I think he is wrong not to have made more of a stand on behalf of the education maintenance allowance paid to 16- and 17-year olds until Gove abolished it.

One CPO also wrote, "There is no motivation and I have had to use my own means of transport and resources to deliver services without any vehicle maintenance allowance being paid to me".

Education maintenance allowance was scrapped.

Something called the "eductional maintenance allowance" [sic].