Small-business owners describe how PPP loans and SBA support let them keep paying employees and avoid dipping into personal savings during COVID shutdowns. The program helped them rehire staff and reopen quickly when disruptions hit.
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PPP became the gap. Seriously, the line between open and close. Hi, I'm Randy Wistoff, director of the Kansas City Zinc. We were able to receive a PPP loan through working with a local bank. The SBA loan has helped us at the perfect time to be able to make payroll. The PPP loan helped us in a way where we did not have to sacrifice our personal savings. Thanks to PPV loan, Group Living is able to continue providing many services to people who have developmental disabilities. Hi, this is Claire Otto with Sugar Divas Cakery. PPP money has helped us bring the entire team back. So with the PPP loan, what it's done is it's really helped us keep our pivot going and keep our people working. The PPP has certainly helped stabilize this company. It has allowed us to be sure that each employee would receive his or her normal take home pay so that they're able to carry on with their lives. Hi, my name is Chris Ayers and I'm the president of A List and Lazada Transportation. Because of the SBA loan, we were able to bring most of our employees back and we're excited to say that we're making a difference in our community. Long story short, PPP came along, allowed us to bring back furloughed workers. The PPP loan helped us expedite the process of bringing our weekend employees back quickly. So they were only out for a month. We're happy to report the zoo is open again. We couldn't have done this without the help of the SBA and the PPP loan. It relieved the pressure off of having to meet a certain sales goal. Things just popped quick now. Up to 13 people working and that is within, I'm going to say, about a seven day period. And we're able to do that because of the ppp. You know, we were able to keep all of our staff thanks to the PPP loan that we were able to secure. The PPP loan we applied for and we got, which has been incredibly helpful. Once the PPP came in, I was super excited because the funds were there to take care of staff. The PPP coming in was a huge release and so if not for the PPP we would have really suffered. It would have been horrible. We were able to bring back dozens of employees much earlier than, you know, had we not had ppp. Yeah, if it wasn't for that program, I don't know where we would be right now because it took a lot of weight off of us. And the PPP really has been instrumental in helping us fill that gap. Having that pay tech paycheck protection has actually really took some stress off of them as well. It was PPP was a true lifeline. Thank you for what you do for America. So thank you so much to everybody. Thanks, sba. Thank you. The paycheck protection program has been an incredibly successful federal disaster response, thanks to the President's leadership and the combined efforts of the US Treasury Department and the spa.
