The PM was repeatedly pressed on why he was targeting pensioners, in a round of BBC local radio interviews.
The prime minister has insisted it "makes sense" to cut winter fuel payments to millions of pensioners, as he was pressed on the change in a series of BBC local radio interviews in Downing Street.
He said it was important to protect pensioners who most needed the allowance, but many did not need it because they were "relatively wealthy". He urged people who were eligible for pension credit to take it up, saying it would guarantee they continued to receive the winter fuel allowance. "But when you inherit a broken economy, when you then find out there was £22bn which doesn't appear on the books, and you'd need to balance the books, very, very difficult decisions have to be made," he added.
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