article_snippet: Child benefit could be limited to only three children, under plans being considered by the Tories.
article_snippet: The Chancellor George Osborne is resisting proposals from the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to cap child benefit at three children .
article_snippet: Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has previously proposed a two-child limit, but George Osborne is understood to have rejected a two-child limit. 
article_snippet: But Labour MP Dame Anne Begg said people did not have children for child benefit and asked ‘why pick on’ large families.
article_snippet: Labour MP Dame Anne Begg said: ‘I don't think you have a child because you're going to get an extra...
article_snippet: Labour MP Dame Anne Begg added: ‘Only one in seven families have three or more children - it's a small number - so why pick on Only one in seven families?