Analysis
December 10, 2020
AGC Files Suit Over PPP Questionnaire
Written by Sandy Williams
The Associated General Contractors of America filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging that the Small Business Administration and the Office of Management and Budget secretly crafted an intrusive questionnaire that gathers irrelevant information on business operations to reassess eligibility for Paycheck Protection Program loans.
“The administration has every right, and obligation, to ensure businesses were eligible to apply for and receive the relief loans,” said Stephen E. Sandherr, the AGC’s chief executive officer. “But they do not have the right to use a secretly crafted form to gather unprecedented amounts of proprietary information that has little or nothing to do with the economic uncertainty that led businesses to apply for the loans in the first place.”
