Making the rules while playing the game: Check out the new guidance from the SBA on the Paycheck Protection Program program

The United States Government rode to the economy’s rescue in March when it enacted the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), established by Section 1102 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “Act”). 

The PPP provided funding for businesses and nearly everyone connected to the economy including Oklahoma small businesses, employees, and independent contractors.  The PPP is administered by the United States Small Business Administration (the “SBA”), meaning the SBA makes up the rules for the PPP loan program. 

In what was certainly a path leading to confusion and difficulty but perhaps a path required by the severity of Coronavirus National Emergency, the SBA made the rules for the PPP during, after, and while it was distributing the funds from the PPP.  That means Oklahoma small businesses and businesses around the United States received PPP loan funds and since then have had to address new rules.

In a bid to try to ease the confusion, yesterday, May 6, 2020, the SBA issue these PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM LOANS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):

Paycheck-Protection-Program-Frequently-Asked-Questions

Posted by Shawn Roberts

On this blog, I write about and try to answer practical Oklahoma legal questions. My focus and most experience is in estate planning and business issues including Oklahoma non-compete law. I make a living as an attorney in the law firm I founded, Shawn J. Roberts, P.C. in Oklahoma City. I live in Edmond with my wife Amy and my two children, Sam (19) and David (11). We live precisely in the path of where the "wind comes sweeping down the plains."