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In March 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was signed into law establishing, among other things, the Payment Protection Program (PPP) administered...more
On December 27, the President signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. The Act includes a roughly $900 billion COVID-19 relief package, known as the “Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits and...more
What is the Economic Aid Act? The Economic Aid Act, among other things, reauthorizes lending under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) through March 31, 2021, modifies provisions related to making PPP loans and...more
On December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (“the Act”), was signed into law. The new law both funded the U.S. government for the remainder of FY 2021 and made available a wide range of COVID-19 relief...more
President Donald Trump signed into law on Sunday, December 27, 2020 the omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government. This federal appropriations bill includes approximately $900 billion in targeted COVID-19 relief....more
On December 21, the United States Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, to fund annual appropriations and, through its “Additional Coronavirus Response and Relief” provisions, to supply a second round of...more
On December 27, 2020, President Trump approved a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill. In it, Congress appropriates funds to help small businesses, nonprofits, and venues that continue to be hit hard by the impact of COVID-19...more
The Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act (the “PPP2 Act”) is contained in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (“2021 Appropriations Act”), a $900 billion, nearly 5,600-page bill passed...more
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, on December 21, 2020, approved H.R. 133, referred to as the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.” This advances to the president legislation to provide appropriations for 2021...more
Most Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) borrowers are working toward full forgiveness of their PPP loans and are anxious to get this process started. A borrower generally may submit a loan forgiveness application any time on...more
Without much fanfare, the Small Business Administration (SBA) has started investigating borrowers of larger Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans to obtain information about their business activities. The SBA has asked...more
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is seeking comments on two forms of questionnaires: Form 3509 (Loan Necessity Questionnaire for For-Profit Borrowers) and Form 3510 (Loan Necessity Questionnaire for Non-Profit...more
With the goal of providing financial relief to companies impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) amended the Small Business Act to allow the Small Business...more
Borrowers under the Small Business Administration’s (“SBA”) Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) are required to either maintain or submit to lenders and the SBA certain documentation associated with their application for and...more
The U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) recently released additional details relevant to those participating in the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”). In particular, on October 26, 2020, the SBA posted a notice...more
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has provided additional guidance in connection with the forgiveness of loans issued under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). In an Interim Final Rule, the SBA has provided a...more
The SBA and the United States Treasury have now released a list of over 600,000 PPP loan borrowers who received PPP loans of $150,000 or more. This list includes the name of the borrowers, the general loan range of the PPP...more
On June 16, 2020, the SBA released a revised form of Loan Forgiveness Application, which incorporates the changes provided in the PPP Flexibility Act that we previously discussed, as well as a new “EZ” form intended to...more
The following information has been adapted from the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program Borrower Information Fact Sheet to provide information tailored for nonprofits. This document is for...more
On June 8, 2020, the SBA Administrator and the Secretary of the Treasury issued a joint statement regarding changes effected by the recently-enacted Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act (PPPFA). In that statement, they...more
Both the House and the Senate have now passed HR 7010 providing PPP borrowers more favorable terms. We first alerted you on May 27th of possible changes to PPP being considered by both the House and the Senate. Last night in...more
On May 22, 2020, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury released an Interim Final Rule on Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan Forgiveness (the "Loan Forgiveness Rule"). Although...more
As we reported in a previous article, on May 15, the SBA posted the form of application, with instructions, that borrowers must complete and submit to request forgiveness of all or a portion of their PPP loans based on their...more