• The Small Business Administration (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is a federal relief program designed to help small businesses keep their workforce employed during the COVID-19 crisis.
• The loan can be used for payroll costs, certain interest payments on mortgages, rent payments, and certain utility payments. For more information about these eligible expenses please click here to visit the PPP loan page of the SBA’s website.
  
• To qualify, companies and nonprofits must have fewer than 500 total employees, including all affiliates, subsidiaries and companies under common ownership or otherwise be considered a small business concern under the CARES Act and corresponding SBA regulations. Certain exceptions apply for small businesses in the food service sector, religious organizations, franchises and SBIC-financed businesses.
• All borrowers are required to make several good faith certifications, including that current economic uncertainty makes this PPP loan request necessary to support ongoing business operations.
• All or a portion of the loan may be eligible for forgiveness. Subject to certain restrictions, the portion of the loan eligible for forgiveness may consist of payments for eligible expenses made during certain periods following your loan funding.  For additional information about forgiveness please visit the SBA website referenced above.
• You can apply for both an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (through the SBA) and a Paycheck Protection Program Loan, but there may be no duplication in the use of funds.
• The maximum loan amount is 2.5 times your average monthly payroll, up to $10 million.
• These will be unsecured loans that do not require personal guarantees.
• You may defer payments as provided for in the CARES Act, Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act and corresponding SBA regulations.

We would like to remind you that some people are using times like this as an opportunity to take advantage. Please remember that we will never contact you to ask for sensitive information, like online banking IDs, passwords, one-time verification codes, account numbers, or Social Security numbers. Please be on the lookout for scams that are designed to trick you into giving your personal information.

Updated 6/12/20