Dear Chamber Friends,
Please find attached and at this link the U.S. Chamber’s Coronavirus Emergency Loans Small Business Guide and Checklist. This is the first of a number of resources we are developing to help you connect your members with the resources recently approved by Congress to respond to the ongoing pandemic.
As many of you are aware, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act allocated $350 billion to help small businesses keep workers employed amid the pandemic and economic downturn. Known as the “Paycheck Protection Program,” the initiative provides 100% federally guaranteed loans to small businesses who maintain their payroll during this emergency. Importantly, these loans may be forgiven if borrowers maintain their payrolls during the crisis or restore their payrolls afterward.
We are working on other materials to help you provide assistance to your members, which we’ll distribute as they become available. Additionally, please let us know if you would like us to join any of your calls with your boards, committees, or general membership to discuss the U.S. Chamber’s efforts to respond to the ongoing pandemic.
Congress has approved $350 billion in emergency loans for small businesses to help them keep workers employed. In fact, if small businesses maintain or later restore their payrolls, they may not have to repay some — or possibly any — of the loan. Here’s a guide and checklist from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to help your small business through the process.
Thanks and we hope that you and your families are all safe and well.
Jennings Imel / Vartan Djihanian
Western Regional Office
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
jimel@uschamber.com / vdjihanian@uschamber.com
Office: 818-884-0702 |