REMOTE and regional NSW is bracing itself for the impact of millions of dollars in payments due to arrive this week as part of a Federal Government economic stimulus package.

In Bourke, a town hurt by the drought and battling to mend its image as the alcohol-related crime capital of NSW, a minimum of $300,000 is expected to land in the bank accounts of parents and pensioners on top of their usual payments.

Among Bourke's indigenous population, of whom a quarter are unemployed, even the smallest payments of $1000 will triple the median household income this week.

A meeting of police, health workers and local businesses had developed strategies to prepare for the windfall and for any fallout, Bourke Shire Council's managing director, Geoff Wise, said.

This meant ordering extra stock, advertising savings accounts in banks and rostering extra police on patrols to deal with increased drinking and violence.

"We have done everything we possibly can [to encourage responsible spending] but at the same time we fully expect that a lot of it will be turned over in the community, not necessarily in the best way, on poker machines, alcohol, whatever."

If just 5 or 10 per cent were spent on vices, it would still be a significant amount, he said. "You only need 5 per cent of rogues and it gives everyone a bad name."

Alcohol working group chairman and indigenous leader Alistair Ferguson said the stimulus package had been on the radar of Bourke's government agencies for weeks.

"We are concerned and I think the majority of people will spend the money wisely but we can't exclude that there will be an element within the community that won't."

Mr Wise said the Government should have set up a monitoring system to evaluate how the money was spent before it released billions of dollars.

The member for Barwon, Nationals MP Kevin Humphries, said he had met senior police in Bourke, Walgett and Moree - where the cash influx was expected to be $500,000 - and was told of police intelligence that drug manufacturers had increased production statewide.

"Everyone knows there will be a spike in drinking parties. Places like Lightning Ridge will probably fire up. There's always been a bit of a drug problem there in the mining fraternity," he said.