In a speech setting out his aspirations for the welfare system after the next general election in 2015, Cameron said that the time had come for a national debate on what the welfare system is for and who should receive support through benefits.
He said that at present the system was unfair, favouring couples who are out-of-work and have children ahead of couples who are working and waiting until they can afford to have children.
Cameron said: “The time has come to go back to first principles; to have a real national debate and ask some fundamental, searching questions about working-age welfare.
“There are more than 150,000 people who have been claiming income support for more than a year who have three or more children and 57,000 who have four or more children.
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