A Moray councillor says Fit-Life? card pricing is unfair, hurting single-parent families and those with lower incomes.
The Fit-Life? card lets you use leisure sites run by Moray Council and Moray Leisure Centre. It also works in other regions too, including Highland and Aberdeen. There’s no extra cost for this.
Sonya Warren worried about the card’s pricing and wanted costs to be fairer. A single adult card cost £288 before, while a single adult family card was £384.
Two adults with kids paid £408 total. If split, each adult pays £204, which is cheaper than the single adult card. Adding a second adult costs just £24, and kids go free with this card.
Sonya Warren thinks this is “crazy.” She says single parents often earn less because their household has only one income, unlike two-adult homes which might have two incomes.
She says a chance to fix this was missed, and the recent budget didn’t help either. They raised Fit-Life? card prices, even though SNP wanted single family prices to stay the same.
The council has delayed fixing this issue. It was to be part of a leisure review that came out in January. A timeline to deal with this is unknown.
Sonya Warren finds it unfair and believes it hurts those who can least afford it. This makes fitness costly for no reason, and she argues that equality should be a council priority, but this issue makes it worse.