Voters want a say on EU power grab Mr Cameron's plans for a phase of radical welfare reform, which he outlined in a speech last week, appear to touch a chord with voters. Some 56 per cent think the welfare system overall is "too generous," with just 12 per cent believing it is not generous enough. Just under two thirds (65 per cent) believe child benefit - currently paid to mothers for all offspring they have - should be restricted to just the first two children, while 25 per cent disagree. Putting a time limit on unemployment benefit such as jobseeker's allowance, meanwhile, is backed by 48 per cent, while 36 per cent think this should not happen. Stopping paying housing benefit to anybody aged under 25, one of the most controversial proposals being looked at, is supported by 40 per cent, but exactly the same proportion opposes such a move. Stopping the universal payment of some benefits to all pensioners - including winter fuel allowance, free TV licences and free bus passes - is unpopular, with 51 per cent opposing it and 38 per cent supporting it. Ending such pensioner benefits, which would save about £4 billion a year, is being tacitly backed by Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, while Mr Cameron is keen to keep the current system. In his speech in Kent last week, the Prime Minister indicated he had working-age families in his sights rather than pensioners. "We need to think harder about who receives working-age welfare," he said. If it is a real safety net, then clearly it's principally for people who have no other means of support, or who have fallen on hard times. But there are many receiving today who do not necessarily fall into these camps. Chris Grayling, the Employment Minister, yesterday took a position closer to Mr Cameron than to Mr Duncan Smith, his immediate boss at the Department for Work and Pensions. "I'm, personally, not in favour of doing things that reduce pensioner income," he said. I think pensioners have suffered hugely in the last few years with, particularly, the fall in interest rates. It may be nice for people who have got a tracker mortgage, but it's not at all nice for people who depended on savings income for a time and suddenly see that income disappear. Mr Grayling said ministers were looking for "behavioural change" and added: "It's sensible to ask questions like should there be a limit on the number of children you can claim benefit for? Should your experience as a young person in the first few years of working life be different if you're on benefits to if you are in a job, living at home?