The Winter Fuel Payment is a state benefit paid once a year to help people pay for their heating in the colder months. But the Government has announced changes to the support that will affect millions of pensioners

The DWP has issued the guidance on the Winter Fuel Payment in recent days as it starts to remind people that the payment will be made over the coming weeks

In an embarrassing result for Keir Starmer, Labour delegates voted through a motion demanding he abandons cutting the £300 winter fuel payment for all but the poorest OAPs

Union chief Sharon Graham warned Labour members the decision to cut the winter fuel payment was a "noose around our necks".

'This is not what people voted for. It is the wrong decision and needs to be reversed'

The leadership has lost a highly anticipated motion at the party’s conference that called on ministers to reverse the cuts to the £300 payouts from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Sharon Graham, the Unite general secretary, and other Unite delegates applauded after their motion was carried at the Labour Party conference today.

Delegates backed a union motion calling for the cut to be reversed