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Better data, analysis gives SBA new optimism to recoup smaller COVID loans

SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman told House and Senate small business committee lawmakers recently the agency would reverse course and do more to force borrowers of under $100,000 to pay back COVID loans.

Agency Oversight

Did agencies forget how to prevent fraud during pandemic relief?

Agency Oversight

Lawmakers, IG question SBA decision not to pursue defaulted COVID relief loans

Agency Oversight

Federal watchdogs still uncovering full scope of fraud in $5T COVID spending

Federal Newscast

PRAC: Potentially over $5 billion in fraudulent pandemic loans from SBA

Federal Newscast

Soldier sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for $3 million PPP loan fraud

Agency Oversight

How to find data on millions and millions of pandemic federal funding awards

Nick Schwellenbach

Agency Oversight

The scope of pandemic relief fraud keeps on ballooning

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Procurement & compliance trends in the federal marketplace

FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland, looks at federal prosecutor Kevin Chambers, right, after appointing him to be the Justice Department's chief pandemic fraud prosecutor, during a meeting of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Fraud Enforcement Task Force at the Justice Department, March 10, 2022 in Washington. The U.S. Secret Service recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic funds to the Small Business Administration, Friday, Aug. 26. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Workforce

Secret Service recovers $286M in stolen pandemic loans

Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation inspector general

Agency Oversight

Hazards of self-certification and other lessons learned from federal government's pandemic response

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Workforce

Ex-senior NASA employee gets 18 months for pandemic fraud

Shown is a portion of a Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program Borrower Application Form, Tuesday, April 21, 2020 in Washington. The Paycheck Protection was supposed to be a lifeline for small businesses, helping them stay afloat and keep their employees on the payroll during the coronavirus pandemic. But guidelines from the Small Business Administration say that businesses are ineligible if someone who owns at least 20 percent of the company is incarcerated, under indictment, on probation or parole or had been convicted of a felony within the last five years. Ineligible would-be applicants and advocates say the restrictions are a slap in the face for those who have served their time, especially from an administration that has trumpeted second chances. (AP Photo/Wayne Partlow)

Federal Newscast

SBA says goodbye to its largest program ever

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Commentary

The Biden-Harris administration wants to address racial equity – focusing on customer experience can help

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Cybersecurity

SBA cyber teams, public affairs partner to take on social media scammers

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Off the Shelf

The evolving federal market for small businesses

Gary Shiffman, founder of Giant Oak Inc. and professor at Georgetown University

Agency Oversight

Has the SBA gotten better at preventing fraudulent loans?

Agency Oversight

'Young' CISA gets funds but still has work to do, GAO says

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Agency Oversight

Did pandemic emergency loans reach minority small business, and will the next round?

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Off the Shelf

The Civil False Claims Act: Key trends in 2021

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Agency Oversight

Watchdog group says COVID spending waste worse than previously thought

Chuck Schumer

Budget

Congress seals agreement on $900 billion COVID relief bill

Justin Goldberg-Square

Congress

SBA may be going too far trying to prevent PPP fraud