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Exclusive PPP Loan Period for Smallest Businesses and Nonprofits Closes Next Week

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Mar 03 2021

Exclusive PPP Loan Period for Smallest Businesses and Nonprofits Closes Next Week

What's NewThe Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) provides loans to help businesses keep their workforce employed during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. On February 24, The Small Business Administration established a 14-day, exclusive PPP loan application period for businesses and nonprofits with fewer than 20 employees.

This exclusive window is intended to give lenders and community partners more time to work with the smallest businesses to submit their applications, while also ensuring that larger PPP-eligible businesses will still have plenty of time to apply for and receive support before the program expires on March 31, 2021.

This special period closes in less than a week on March 9th. During this time, PPP lenders are working exclusively with the smallest businesses to submit their applications before this round of PPP funding expires on March 31st. Contact your local lender or visit the SBA website today to learn more.

SBA also recently announced four additional changes to open the PPP to more underserved small businesses than ever before. While these changes are being implemented, SBA will work with community partners to improve the emergency relief “digital front door” and conduct extensive stakeholder outreach. And, SBA will strengthen its relationships with lender partners to advance equity goals, deliver funding efficiently, and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. SBA will:

  • Allow sole proprietors, independent contractors, and self-employed individuals to receive more financial support by revising the PPP’s funding formula for these categories of applicants;
  • Eliminate an exclusionary restriction on PPP access for small business owners with prior non-fraud felony convictions, consistent with a bipartisan congressional proposal;
  • Eliminate PPP access restrictions on small business owners who have struggled to make student loan payments by eliminating student loan debt delinquency as a disqualifier to participating in the PPP; and
  • Ensure access for non-citizen small business owners who are lawful U.S. residents by clarifying that they may use Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) to apply for the PPP.

If you’re planning on applying for a PPP loan and you’re a small business or nonprofit, be sure to do so now before this exclusive loan period ends!