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Summary
British obese people may face benefits cuts if they not
comply to doing exercise. Westminster council and Local Government Information
Unit propose smart cards to track claimants’ to check if they do fitness. This
allows authorities to dock housing and council benefit payments to those who do
not carry out their exercise prescribed by their GP. A report suggest linking
benefit payments to claimants’’ lifestyle. However, a Westminster council
spokesman thinks that the proposal would involve a ‘carrot and stick’ approach.
Obesity increases health problems, making it a major burden of £1.5 billion per
year, on the NHS. According to the Health Survey of England, 65 % of men and
58% of women are either overweight or obese.
Opinion
It is very important that people look after their body. It
is a very delicate thing and therefore people need to participate in sports and
do fitness to make their bones and muscles strong. I do agree with the propose
that obese people need to be monitored to make sure they are doing something
about their problem, in order to get benefits from the government. However, I
men chooses to be an obese they should take the consequences that comes with
it. If you are obese, your less movable thus less active thus very lazy.
Therefore I think that the government should not finance them but help them,
even if it not that simple.
I think this is really weird. Why should only obese people face benefits cuts if they do not comply? A lot people work very hard to stay on their proper weight. Everybody needs to pay to do exercises at the gym, so I do not think it is fair to others.
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