[2] The measure was due to come into effect in April 2017[3] with the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimating that the policy will impact upon 10% of social housing tenants.
[3] On 21 November 2016 the Housing Minister Gavin Barwell announced that the new plans for Pay to Stay would be dropped.
[5] The trade publication Inside Housing criticised the practicality of the policy given that social landlords had no mechanism to compel tenants to declare their incomes.
It was argued that workers nearing the threshold might reduce their hours to compensate for a pay rise.
[citation needed] The 2016–2017 tax year was the period that wages would have been accessed, to determine the excess payment.