I strongly urge anyone who is close to having to fire or furlough workers to look into this. My company is doing well but will likely see a 30-60 day period of minimal to no revenue soon. To bunker against this we applied for the SBA 7a Payroll Protection Loan. As described above, you can apply for up to 2.5 times your average monthly payroll. The loan proceeds must be used over the eight week period following the loan closing and any funds used for payroll, rent, utilities, and mortgage interest are deducted from the balance and forgiven.
We submitted the application Friday and received approval today. Funds will be available in 1-2 weeks.
Let us know when you finally receive money for the PPP. My boss submitted the application on Sunday so going off of your dates, we should hear back this week.
We do robotic systems and service work and most of that had been affected. No one has been looking for new systems and most of our service work has been suspended because plants have either shutdown or aren't letting outside contractors in.