They won ' t as it ' s a change in what is permitted , rather than finding that previous behaviour was illegal . <| sep |> Sure . But they chose to exploit a bug . Chose out of own free will to exploit a bug they themselves had found and reported as a bug . <| sep |> That aside , the living wage is meant to be the minimum amount for people to live comfortably . While the National Living Wage only applies to over 25 s , as if we are somehow inherently worth morehave less needs than someone who is 24 . AFAIK it doesn ' t take into account different rates for London either , so even if it does go to 8 . 45 it still won ' t be a living wage in London . Also giving the government the benefit of the doubt , and assuming that they are going to raise it to actually match what the living wage foundation is going to say , taking into account inflation , benefit cuts etc . and they will do this by 2020 . It is still disingenuous on their part calling it a living wage till it reaches that point . They should in stead say at the very least something along the lines of we plan to increase the minimum wage year on year in order to make it a living wage by 2020 , not just flat out say today we increased the national living wage by 30 p per hourhere is the actual quote The National Living Wage for those aged 25 and over will increase from 7 . 20 per hour to 7 . 50 per hour . That means over 1 , 400 a year more for a fulltime worker previously on the National Minimum Wage . statement 2016 s o m eofthethingsweveannounced