Payroll, mortgage or rent, overhead... no pay back is required.
But the little people? We got 1200 to keep our mouths shut about our jobs being shut down and going insane locked in our houses. Those people that got the free loans? They can spend their lockdowns on their yachts or in another country.
This is just another transfer of wealth at the little peoples expense.
WHy do people keep calling them free loans? They do have an obligation to pay them back lol
Not if they use them as the guidelines state. If you use it to operate your business daily then you don't pay it back. Buy a yacht with it and then you pay 1%.
If a PPP loan is not forgiven in full (including if there has been a reduction in the forgiveness amount for an EIDL advance), any remaining balance due on the PPP loan must be repaid by the borrower. The lender is responsible for notifying the borrower of the loan forgiveness amount remitted by SBA and the date on which the borrower’s first loan payment is due. The lender must continue to service the loan. The borrower must repay the remaining loan balance by the maturity date of the PPP loan (either two or five years). If a borrower is determined to have been ineligible for a PPP loan for any reason, SBA may seek repayment of the outstanding PPP loan balance or pursue other available remedies.
They are on the hook
Which is why it isn't a handout.
Banks have skin in the game
It's a handout and it's not the banks money.
They are on the hook
If a PPP loan is not forgiven in full (including if there has been a reduction in the forgiveness amount for an EIDL advance), any remaining balance due on the PPP loan must be repaid by the borrower. The lender is responsible for notifying the borrower of the loan forgiveness amount remitted by SBA and the date on which the borrower’s first loan payment is due. The lender must continue to service the loan. The borrower must repay the remaining loan balance by the maturity date of the PPP loan (either two or five years). If a borrower is determined to have been ineligible for a PPP loan for any reason, SBA may seek repayment of the outstanding PPP loan balance or pursue other available remedies.
Servicing the loan is part of the agreement
They have skin in the game, which is why it was never going to go to the people who needed it most. Just can't happen when your intermediary is a bank who cares about profit.