The pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was a bloated, wasteful mess—and now the guy responsible for running it is getting a promotion. President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that ...

As COVID-19 shutdowns threatened businesses back in 2020, the U.S. government began issuing nearly $800 billion in potentially forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loans. The program was designed to ...

When the Paycheck Protection Program launched during the pandemic shutdowns of spring 2020, it immediately became a chaotic free-for-all. Called PPP for short, the program offered simple-to-get, ...

A federal investigation blames fintechs for rampant Paycheck Protection Program loan fraud. The resulting report named fintechs and lenders it said failed to screen for fraudulent claims. It could ...

Small-business owners who took Paycheck Protection Program loans and had them forgiven may think they are done with the federal program, but the $785 billion program and the federal government may not ...

An SBA rule has saddled hundreds of thousands of business owners with unforgivable PPP loan balances due to good faith errors. Here's what business owners need to know. Hundreds of thousands of ...

Doug Myers is a digital content producer for CBS Texas. A longtime journalist, Doug has worked for four newspapers in Texas and Louisiana and for three television stations in Texas. He has also spent ...