The U.S. Small Business Administration is launching a streamlined application portal to allow borrowers with Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 or less, through participating lenders, to ...

Knoxville company Hoffmann Quality Tools, owned by the Hoffmann Group, paid more than $1.4 million in fees to repay a loan after claiming money it didn't qualify for under the COVID-19 pandemic-era ...

The Harvard Club of Boston has agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle allegations that it improperly obtained a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan during the COVID-19 pandemic. The club, which is ...

More than four years after the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, stopped accepting applications, the U.S. federal government is still combating fraud that exploited the emergency fund disbursements ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Paycheck Protection Program has issued $22 billion to struggling Illinois businesses, but some of those federal loans are being stolen, according to the FBI. The PPP money is ...

About 400 government employees investigated by the state of Illinois improperly tapped a federal pandemic relief fund program meant to keep small businesses afloat — part of a nationwide wave of ...