Anwar, who is also finance minister, told the Dewan Rakyat that the revised fuel quota translates to roughly 5,000km of travel and will be subject to certain conditions.

On Oct 13, the government had announced an increase in the BUDI95 eligibility ceiling for full-time e-hailing drivers to 600 litres per month, from 300 litres previously, benefiting nearly 58,000 e-hailing drivers.

Last night, Treasury secretary-general Johan Mahmood Merican said that the government would announce a further quota increase for full-time e-hailing drivers after taking into account appeals from the drivers as well as fuel usage data submitted by e-hailing service providers.

Anwar also said that for the general public, the 300-litre monthly quota is sufficient as the average usage is only 98 litres, making up just 33% of the allocated amount.

“Only about 0.7% of recipients have exceeded the 300-litre limit.”

He said this included those travelling back to their hometowns.

When asked by Syerleena Abdul Rashid (PH–Bukit Bendera) why the government eventually decided to implement BUDI95 to benefit all Malaysian citizens instead of just 85% of the population as initially announced, Anwar said the issue lay in defining the threshold for the remaining 15% (T15).

Anwar said when it came to setting income limits, even raising the threshold from RM13,000 to RM20,000 a month would still affect the upper-middle class.

“We also considered a threshold of RM50,000 a month instead, but very few people will fall under that category.

“Therefore, we decided to proceed with the current approach first. If there’s a need to make a change in the future, when the system is more robust, then we can introduce further refinements,” he said.