Overhaul the benefits system, says David Cameron Pensioners currently receive benefits worth £107 billion, including the state pension, compared with £54 billion paid to working-age people. Universal benefits, such as the £200 winter fuel allowance, free TV licences and free bus passes cost almost £4 billion annually - almost equal to the budget for Jobseeker's Allowance. However, the Prime Minister is understood to have ruled out cutting the benefits in the next spending review, which will set Government spending between 2014 and 2017. Sources believe it is highly unlikely that Mr Cameron would sanction any means-testing or scrapping of these benefits while he remains in office. In today's speech he will say: "There is a debate about some of the extra benefits that pensioners can receive - and whether they should be means-tested. On this I want to be very clear: two years ago I made a promise to the elderly of this country and I am keeping it. I was elected on a mandate to protect those benefits - so that is what we have done. Instead, Mr Cameron wants to draw up a new round of cuts to the welfare paid to those who could work. The Prime Minister will suggest that the entire welfare system should be redesigned to remove incentives for people claiming benefits to have more children. "Quite simply, we have been encouraging working-age people to have children and not work, when we should be enabling working-age people to work and have children," the Prime Minister will say. So it's time we asked some serious questions about the signals we send out through the benefits