But what kind of ideas are they actually weighing up...?
Ideas pushed by No 10 included measures that would force the unemployed and those claiming jobseeker's allowance to spend an entire working week in the pursuit of finding a job. But on Friday lunchtime the Department for Work and Pensions said that particular idea had been ruled out as "not workable". By Friday evening the department was instructed that the idea could be a possible candidate for tightening the welfare regime.
You hear that? You need to spend 36 hours a week, every week, looking for work and, presumably, be able to prove it as well. If you run out of jobs to apply for why not stand on a street corner with a sandwich board: "will vote Tory for food"?
Treasury officials had also been keen on a suggestion that would see those people without a history of national insurance contributions unable to turn down suggested employment opportunities.
So thats what young people are called these days!
But they're right folks. It's time to take on the workshy, make the feckless and decadent classes pay, egregious, idle, thieving, born with a grotesque sense of entitlement... after all they caused the recession.
Meanwhile, in totally unconnected, separate piece of news this is David (son of an investment banker) Cameron hanging out with the royal family (distant relatives) in Scotland on Saturday.