The workers' pay was kept months in arrears, until they refused to work, while the daily returns recorded more workers than were employed.
However, rent direct reduced landlords' rent collection costs and minimised the possibility of rent arrears.
Policy makers knew that large increases in the minimum wage or pension would undermine their attempts to clear arrears before the election.
During the 1995 campaign, the goals of increasing wages and pensions conflicted more noticeably with that of decreasing arrears.
Families drew on various sorts of credit - they fell into arrears of rent, they borrowed from shops, dealers, and neighbours.
Their contribution rates are already 30 % of payroll, fully spent and many enterprises are in arrears.
Moreover, legal actions were instituted and property and buildings were seized from non-payers in an attempt to recover some of the payment arrears.
However, when hard times hit in the middle of the 1620s he began to fall into arrears on his rents.