{"id":478,"date":"2020-12-22T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=478"},"modified":"2022-06-05T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T21:25:11","slug":"new-covid-19-relief-package-passed-december-21-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/new-covid-19-relief-package-passed-december-21-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"New COVID-19 Relief Package Passed December 21, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On December 21st, Congress approved a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package, of which at least $1.7 billion will aid Hawaii. The bipartisan deal includes: an extension of unemployment insurance; direct cash payments to individuals; assistance for schools, vaccine distribution, hospitals, and health care workers. In addition, support offered to small businesses includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Businesses with 300 or fewer employees that have sustained a 25% revenue loss in any quarter of 2020 can receive a second forgivable PPP loan<\/li><li>Forgivable expenses are expanded to include supplies costs, investments in facility modifications, and purchases of personal protective equipment (PPE)<\/li><li>Business expenses paid for with PPP loans are now tax deductible<\/li><li>Expanded eligibility for nonprofits, local newspapers, and TV and radio broadcasters<\/li><li>PPP forgiveness process simplified for loans of $150,000 or less<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For additional information and ongoing updates on the complete provisions of the package, see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schatz.senate.gov\/coronavirus\">https:\/\/www.schatz.senate.gov\/coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 21st, Congress approved a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package, of which at least $1.7 billion will aid Hawaii. The bipartisan deal includes: an extension of unemployment insurance; direct cash payments to individuals; assistance for schools, vaccine distribution, hospitals, and health care workers. In addition, support offered to small businesses includes: Businesses with 300 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}