Answer:“The Pensions Regulator (tPR) is running a test tranche of smaller employers from 1st June to see how they cope and look at any problems that may arise ready for the vast majority that start later this year.
Businesses with fewer than 49 employees will now begin to be staged in between June 2015 and April 2017, instead of the previous timing (which would have started during 2014).
These small employers will be split between those with 30 or more employees (who will be staged between August 2015 and October 2015) and those with fewer than 30 (who, apart from a test tranche in June 2015, will not be staged until January 2016)
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