LABOUR’S winter fuel payment means test has “robbed millions of pensioners” and Holyrood must unite against it, the SNP said today.

Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville made the remarks ahead of the parliamentary debate marking Challenge Poverty Week, calling for the policy to be ditched.

Ms Somerville said: “Labour’s abrupt decision to bring in means-testing for the winter fuel payment has robbed millions of pensioners of hundreds of pounds at the very time that energy bills are set to rise.