The work and pensions minister said plans to reduce welfare payments to remove instances where it is more beneficial to claim benefit than work is an important step towards increasing social mobility.
Under proposals announced by George Osborne, the total amount of state benefits a family will be able to claim will be capped at around £26,000 a year.
Speaking at a conference fringe meeting on child poverty, staged by Demos and Save the Children, Maria Miller said: "If you don’t address the issue of disincentive to work we will never address the issue of child poverty."
"If we can get more households into work and make that work pay it is a difference that will really affect some of the poorest families.
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