PracticeCFO Update on PPP: House Passes Bill Easing Forgiveness Requirements
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As some of you know, the U.S. House recently passed the Paycheck Protection Program “Flexibility Act” of 2020 by a vote of 417-1. This Act has NOT yet become law. However, it is with the Senate now. We wanted to give you an update of the major provisions of this round of legislation and how it impacts you, should it be signed into law:
1.The Act extends the “covered period” for using the PPP funds from 8 to 24 weeks. If passed, this will be a huge sigh of relief. With 24 weeks, you should have no problem using the PPP funds for eligible expenses in the normal course of your operations. This means we won’t need to be as aggressive in accelerating certain qualifying expenses, such as retirement plan contributions and rent.
2.The Act would extend the June 30th 2020 deadline to rehire your employees until December 31st, 2020. This is to address the concern that many businesses won’t be able to fully rehire their staff by June 30th.
3.The “Flexibility Act” reverses out the original provision that employers could not cut an employee’s salary by greater than 25% during the covered period.
4.The Act would exempt you from receiving less forgiveness if your Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) ratio dropped during the covered period relative to pre-COVID levels. Under the original CARES act, if you only rehired 60% of your FTE, as an example, by the end of the covered period, you would only receive forgiveness of 60% of the loan related to payroll costs. Under the “Flexibility Act” pending, this would no longer be true if you can document in good faith that you were unable to:
- Rehire your employees or find new employees in their place, or
- Return to the same level of business activity that you had before 2/15/2020 due to compliance with federal/state requirements relating to COVID, such as social distancing and sanitation.