The intention is to support businesses, as far as possible, with immediate cash flow challenges. Annually, the Scottish Government pays out around £420 million through the Basic Payment Scheme and Greening payments. Payments started issuing from 19 September 2022 instead of 16 October 2022. At the time of writing this correspondence, over 14,000 businesses have received their payments with over £320 million in payments made. While the start date of payments may change, the target remains the same - to pay over 70% of anticipated expenditure by the end of December 2022 and 95.24% of anticipated expenditure by the end of February 2023. 4.