Scottish Child Payment will open for applications for all eligible children under the age of 16 from Monday 14 November.
The payment, which is unique to Scotland, provides direct financial support to eligible families and carers to help with the costs of caring for a child.
From 14 November, around 104,000 children already getting Scottish Child Payment for their children under 6 will automatically see their awards increase to £25.
Subject to final checks on data required from the DWP, when the payment extends to under 16s it is forecasted that an additional 300,000 children could be eligible.
Given the large numbers of children forecasted to be newly eligible we are expecting a large number of new applications. This means that people applying for the first time might need to wait to get their award, but if eligible will see their payments backdated to the day they first applied.
