How do you feel about the government telling you how you should spend your welfare payments?

A new scheme by the Turnbull Government is in the planning that will see public housing rent payments taken out before the remaining welfare is passed on.

The Automatic Rent Deduction Scheme is aimed to prevent people getting behind in their rent, with over 9000 households over three weeks behind already.

Others are losing their access to public housing because they get too far behind.