COVID-19 Relief in 2021: What Small Businesses Need to Know
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Below are 10 important things to know about the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) Loan Forgiveness Applications and the detailed instructions for the further revised and updated applications posted on July 30, 2021, as...more
The Paycheck Protection Program closed on May 28, 2021. The SBA is no longer accepting new applications from participating lenders. The following FAQs are for informational purposes only and to assist borrowers who obtained...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
The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program was created by Section 324 of the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits and Venues Act (Economic Aid Act), which was enacted on December 27, 2020. The SVOG...more
The American Rescue Plan Act establishes a $28.6 billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund to distribute grants of up to $10 million to restaurants and other food and beverage businesses. Eligible restaurants, bars, food...more
Yesterday, President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Act), which includes new pandemic-relief grants for small and mid-sized restaurants and bars; expansion of the Paycheck Protection...more
Late on January 6, 2021, the Small Business Administration (the “SBA”) and the Department of Treasury released an Interim Final Rule called “Business Loan Program Temporary Changes; Paycheck Protection Second Draw Loans”...more
On January 19, 2021, the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a new interim final rule on loan forgiveness and loan review procedures for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), as reinitiated by the Economic Aid to...more
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has released updated Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) interim final rules which implement and provide additional guidance on the new PPP provisions contained in the Economic Aid to...more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which became law on December 27, 2021, includes a second round of stimulus funding in the form of the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act(the...more
The Economic Aid Act continues the CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program with an additional $284 billion to provide forgivable loans to eligible small businesses, including certain borrowers that already received loans. ...more
While the arrival of vaccines for the coronavirus have us seeing the proverbial light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, many small businesses, particularly in industries such as travel, hospitality and specialty retail,...more
On December 27, 2020, Congress passed the Economic Aid Act, another COVID-19 relief bill with changes to the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) and the opportunity for many PPP loan recipients to apply for a second loan,...more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, comprised of more than 5,500 pages and including a $900 billion stimulus package, became law on December 27, 2020. As part of this law, the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses,...more
On December 27, 2020, H.R. 133 – the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “CAA 2021”) was signed into law. The CAA 2021 not only provides an omnibus spending bill for the 2021 fiscal year, it also contains provisions...more
The President signed new stimulus legislation into law on December 27, 2020. The new law, the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act, P.L. 116-260 (“Economic Aid Act”), authorizes new and...more
As described in our previous Alert, the appropriations act signed on December 27, 2020, revived the original Paycheck Protection Program, with some changes (now referred to as a “first draw” loan) and created a new “second...more
On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act (Economic Aid Act), which, among other things, appropriates $284.45 billion to reopen the...more