The UK pilot will recruit 360 people in England and Wales. Half will continue to receive their current level of support, while the other half will receive extra financial assistance, albeit not directly. The charity Greater Change will hold and spend money on behalf of participants to ensure that their benefits payments are uninterrupted.

So the homeless person is not given cash. The charity is given a cash fund to spend on an individual.

This one fact diffuses most criticisms of this scheme, but it keeps getting reported with clickbait headlines.