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Safe harbor extended to give borrowers time to return Paycheck Protection Programs (PPP) loans secured with faulty self-certifications without penalty. FAQ #43
The Return to Title IV (R2T4) requirements for student withdrawals related to COVID-19 are waived.
Quarterly reporting mandated by the Cares Act is satisfied through the monthly reporting already required by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA).
Institutions may accept a signed and dated statement from applicants in which they truthfully attests to secondary school completion or the equivalent.
If an estimated or actual amount of PPP loan forgiveness is identified on an institution's audited financial statements for the year in which the loan was received, and attested to by the institution's auditor, the Department will exclude that portion of the PPP loan from total liabilities and increase the institution's equity or net assets by that amount in calculating the institution's composite score.
Institutions must exclude work-study students when counting employees for PPP loan eligibility.
Institutions must exclude payroll costs for FWS students from the calculation of payroll costs used to determine their PPP loan amount. See here for details.
The Department of Health and Human Services is accepting applications for the National Infrastructure for Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 within Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities grant.
Insurance: Several states are considering laws that would permit businesses to collect on business interruption claims despite lack of physical damage and specific virus or pandemic exclusions. If passed, the constitutionality of those laws may come under fire.