Priority between claimants
Only one person can receive Scottish child payment for an individual child. If more than one eligible person applies for Scottish child payment for the same child, SSS must decide entitlement in the following order of priority:1Sch para 5 SCP Regs (draft) •the person who is responsible for that child for the purposes of UC, CTC or PC;
•if no one is responsible for the child for the purposes of UC, CTC or PC, the person who has been awarded child benefit, except where one person has been awarded child benefit and the other person is a kinship carer, in which case the kinship carer has priority;
•where there are competing claims from more than one kinship carer and no one has been awarded UC, CTC, PC or child benefit, the person who claims first has priority. Note: ‘kinship carer’ means someone who has a kinship care order or who is caring for a looked-after child placed with the carer by the local authority.