WASHINGTON—Roughly 300,000 loans were made during the week ending Feb. 21, according to the Small Business Administration's most recent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data.
There have been 1.9 million loans approved in 2021, totaling more than $140 billion.
Credit unions with less than $10 billion in assets have approved 62,152 PPP loans this year, NAFCU noted in its analysis.
As CUToday.info reported, the SBA, in coordination with the Biden administration, announced that starting Wednesday only applications from businesses with fewer than 20 employees will be processed for the next two weeks in an effort to promote equitable access to relief.
Lenders with loans under hold or error codes will still be able to resolve these issues through the SBA’s recently issued resolution process during the two-week window.
The SBA's data show that a majority of loans approved this year have been to businesses with 10 or fewer employees: 986,022 second-draw PPP loans and 574,936 first-draw loans.