It refers to the number of pensioners who live in a household which has a value of a million pounds. The pensioner themselves may have access to a value of a million, or half a million or a fraction of a million or just plain nothing.
And yet this is one of the many lies being used to justify cutting the winter fuel allowance.
Never mind that many pensioners will die of hypothermia, they can just be branded "millionaires" and that is the end of any public sympathy.
Ending the winter fuel allowance will also affect the four-fifths of pensioners who are nothing like millionaires but forget about them.
Labour has to take tough decisions. No politicians will die of hypothermia so it is not that tough for them.
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