You can ration funds like welfare programs already do for at-risk groups. For example, instead of paying $1500/month, you could do a direct deposit of $375/week

You can ration funds like welfare programs already do for at-risk groups. For example, instead of paying $1500/month, you could do a direct deposit of $375/week or $50/day. Furthermore, a basic income is not designed to completely replace programs offered to the disabled or other special needs groups (although it would help). A basic income is designed to remove the perverse tax incentives and byzantine bureaucracy heaped on the "normal" patch-of-bad-luck group.