Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has failed to explain if Australians who own multiple homes will receive multiple $300 discounts on energy bills announced in the federal budget.
Power cost relief was a central part of the federal government's $3.5 billion cost-of-living package included in yesterday's budget.
But today it is causing the government a political headache over whether people owning more than one home will receive multiple $300 discounts.
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Today presenter Karl Stefanovic pressed Albanese this morning whether wealthy Australians who own more than one property, such as mining magnate Gina Reinhart, needed the energy price relief.
But the Prime Minister this morning struggled to explain the issue.
"Well, this is household bill relief of $300 for every household, every household gets it," he said.
He failed to clarify whether people owning holiday or rental homes would receive multiple discounts.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said energy bill relief will go to the person whose name is on the power bill.
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He said energy companies don't have enough information to "slice and dice" the energy discounts.
"They don't have the information, on people's incomes," he said.
"And so we'd have to design and create a whole new system which would take longer and take money and take, a lot of effort .. instead is we're providing this energy bill relief to every household."
