In the 2022/23 financial year, covering April 2022 to March 2023:

• 160,840 applications were received for Scottish Child Payment and of these, 121,750 were received since 14 November 2022 – when Scottish Child Payment was extended to eligible families with children aged under 16 (table1)
• 156,270 were processed, of which 87% were authorised, 12% were denied and the remaining 1% were withdrawn (table1)
• £190.0 million had been paid to clients by 31 March 2023 for Scottish Child Payment, taking the total value issued to clients since the benefit launched on 15 February 2021 to £248.6 million (table6)
• as of 31 March 2023, it is estimated that 303,000 children aged 0-15 years were actively in receipt of Scottish Child Payment (table 8)

Frequency of publications

The next publication, covering up to 30 June 2023, was released in August 2023.

Under the Code of Practice for Official Statistics we publish a timetable of statistical releases for the twelve months ahead.