The Paycheck Protection Program was one of the signature federal economic relief measures in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing small businesses loans of up to $10 million that were ...

Retiring Inspector General Deborah Witzburg reported the new round of fraud in what will be her final quarterly report. Her ...

On June 13, 2023, the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) issued new FAQ 72 (“FAQ 72”) to help clarify whether amounts paid by borrowers to third-party payers for the third-party payer’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ron Sachs - CNP/Newscom The pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was a bloated, wasteful mess—and now the guy ...

As COVID-19 shutdowns threatened businesses back in 2020, the U.S. government began issuing nearly $800 billion in potentially forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loans. The program was designed to ...

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Even if businesses have secured forgiveness for their PPP loans, the work still might not be done. Here's a costly mistake companies need to avoid to steer clear of increasing federal scrutiny.

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The PPP program bailed out the Georgia-based online lender, which went from furloughing employees in March 2020 to being an appealing takeover target in a matter of months thanks in part to the $7 ...

But the program, which tasked banks and other private lenders with processing applications, was beset by fraud from its earliest days in the spring of 2020, with some recent estimates suggesting that ...