The Department has over the past few years encouraged qualifying people to approach SASSA for any form of grant and have had all those who qualify approved. However, the biggest challenge is that most of homeless people live a nomadic life and most of them do not have addresses and IDs. The drive to register the homeless to receive social grants was also implemented and intensified during covid-19 especially for those who were in shelters. It should be noted that homelessness is a cross cutting issue which is the responsibility of various government departments such Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Human Settlement, Health and Social Development. The department’s role is to provide psychosocial support, assessment and reunification services. There is no budget allocated to this function within social development and therefore it is an unfunded mandate. Currently only Gauteng and Western Cape are funding shelters for homeless people through equitable share.