EXCLUSIVE: John Swinney will lead a debate at the Scottish Parliament calling for the UK Government to reverse the decision to make the benefit means-tested.
The SNP Government is to force a vote at Holyrood calling for cuts to the winter fuel payment to be reversed.
The UK Government has insisted it has to make difficult decisions to plug a £22 billion blackhole in the public finances caused by the unfunded spending commitments by the previous Tory administration. Anas Sarwar has previously suggested he was open to making the benefit more widely available to Scots, beyond the remit set out by Reeves.
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