Health and Human Services officials ‘too fat’ to fly coach

WASHINGTON — They’re living off the fat of the land.

Officials of the federal Department of Health and Human Services — the agency that’s supposed to be fighting obesity — got to fly first class at taxpayers’ expense by claiming they were too overweight to be crammed into coach.

HHS officials took 7,000 first-and business-class flights between 2009 and 2013, according to figures first reported by the Washington Examiner.

In 5,100 cases, they got medical exemptions — including obesity, back injuries, or circulation issues — for the premium seats.

“If someone is obese and too large for a seat, the doctor can put in a request,” HHS spokeswoman Kristin Gillham told The Post, adding that an agency travel official must approve each request.

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