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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has flagged one million Australian households will receive up to $500 to help cover rising energy bills.
Under the proposed package of measures, pensioners, small businesses and people on government payments will have their electricity subsidised by the government.
People will be getting several hundred dollars if they’re on pensions and payments, or a small business, but depending on where you live, depending on what the price pressures are, depending on how much the states and territories are prepared to kick in, because this is a co-investment with them.
About five and a half million households and around a million small businesses will be eligible for some energy bill relief worth several hundred dollars. And it depends where you live in the country and what the price pressures are. And it also depends how much the states and territories have kicked in because they’ve been kicking in half. So it’ll be different around the country, we’ve struck eight, different deals with different jurisdictions, around the country. But we hope, and we expect that it will take some of the sting out of these price rises, which are putting pressure on families, and households and small businesses.
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