Credit Unions Made $5.6 Billion in Loans During Latest PPP Round

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As the coronavirus crisis Paycheck Protection Program ends, the Small Business Administration reported that this year 859 credit unions made almost $5.6 billion in loans to businesses to help them weather the pandemic.

“The Paycheck Protection Program provided over 8.5 million small businesses and nonprofits the lifeline they needed to survive during a once-in-generation economic crisis,” SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman said on May 31 when the congressional authorization for the PPP expired.

The SBA reported that 851 credit unions with less than $10 billion in assets made 152,366 loans totaling $5.16 billion in the latest round of PPP lending. Eight credit unions with more than $10 billion in assets made 14,903 loans totaling almost $438 million this year.

By comparison, 4,105 banks and savings and loan institutions with less than $10 billion in assets made about 1.8 million PPP loans totaling $101.5 billion during the same time period. Banks and savings and loans with more than $10 billion in assets made about 1.8 million PPP loans totaling $118.3 billion.

Although Guzman touted the success of the program, credit union and other financial services trade groups have said the program was plagued by inefficiency and problems such as slow loan processing and ineligible businesses receiving loans.

SBA officials have noted that the agency began making loans immediately after the program was created and did not have time to create the infrastructure that normally would have been created when such a program was rolled out.

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  • David Baumann

    David Baumann established and edited the Washington Credit Union Daily website before it was put on hiatus while he served as the editor of the regulatory and legislative blog at CUCollaborate. Before starting Washington Credit Union Daily, David was the Washington correspondent for the Credit Union Times. A veteran Washington reporter, he has spent his career writing and editing for many of the capital’s leading publications, including CongressDaily, National Journal magazine and Congressional Quarterly Weekly. He was part of a team that won a 2005 National Headliner Award for a special issue of National Journal on “The State of Congress.” He holds a B.A. in political science from The George Washington University and an M.A. in journalism from Indiana University.

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