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SBA to Investigate Planned Parenthood Affiliate for Applying for Paycheck Protection Program Loan

By Brian D. Smith
March 9, 2021
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In a letter to Planned Parenthood of Delaware dated Tuesday obtained by CNN, the SBA wrote that because Planned Parenthood of Delaware “is a local affiliate of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America… Paycheck Protection Program Loan in under applicable membership rules and size standards, as intended by Congress, and that the loan you received is to be returned. “

The letter states that the loan of $ 496,225 that the Delaware affiliate requested and received “is one of 38 loans that local PPFA affiliates have requested through the Paycheck Protection Program.” In total, local PPFA affiliates have requested more than $ 80 million in paychecks. Protection Program Loans. “

It is not known whether the Small Business Administration requires these affiliates to return the loans they have received.

The SBA “will investigate” if Planned Parenthood of Delaware disputes the findings “to assess PPD’s eligibility for a Paycheck Protection Program loan and the basis of PPD’s eligibility certification,” the letter said. . The agency requested documents certifying the certification within 10 days of receiving the letter, noting that the SBA may refer borrowers who knowingly made false certifications “for appropriate civil and criminal penalties.”

Jacqueline Ayers, vice president of government relations and public policy for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, confirmed in a statement Wednesday that “certain organizations independent of Planned Parenthood 501 (c) (3) have applied for and obtained loans in accordance with eligibility rules established by CARES. Act and the Small Business Administration (SBA), whom they met. ”

A source from Planned Parenthood said Planned Parenthood of Delaware and other affiliates received such letters in the mail on Thursday, but were unsure how many affiliates received them due to varying mailing times and delays. people working remotely.

Contacted about the letters, SBA press director Carol Wilkerson said the agency had made no comment.

The letter to Planned Parenthood of Delaware cites SBA rules that require companies to have 500 or fewer employees and identify their affiliates, including those who have management control on them, in order to qualify for PPP funding. According to the 2018 group records, Planned Parenthood of Delaware employed 45 people and Planned Parenthood Federation of America employees 676 people.

“The PPFA is known to have and exercise control over its local affiliates,” the SBA wrote, highlighting the mandates and certifications of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for its affiliates. “Yet PPD has not identified PPFA or any of the other local PPFA offices as affiliates.”

The Planned Parenthood source refuted the SBA’s claim that the Planned Parenthood Federation of America exercises managerial control over its affiliates as false. The source said the Planned Parenthood Federation of America does not share management with its subsidiaries or control their internal operations in the examples referenced by the SBA, noting that they have different boards and management teams. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America itself has not applied for a PPP loan, the source added.

Republican senators criticized Planned Parenthood for applying for the SBA loans and asked for answers on how affiliates received them.

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton led 26 colleagues in a letter to Attorney General William Barr requesting that the Justice Department investigate whether affiliates knowingly applied for loans for which they were not eligible.

“It seems clear that Planned Parenthood knew that it was not eligible for small business loans under the CARES Act long before its subsidiaries fraudulently self-certified that they were eligible,” they wrote.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Marco Rubio, demanded that affiliates return the money, add that there was “no ambiguity in the legislation that was passed or public document surrounding its passage” that Planned Parenthood was ineligible. He also called on the SBA to open an investigation into the loans, adding that if “Planned Parenthood, banks or SBA staff knowingly break the law, all appropriate legal options should be considered.”
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri called for the SBA to identify Planned Parenthood affiliates who have applied for and received PPP funding and explain the agency’s lender instructions and reporting mechanisms to prevent loans deemed unacceptable.

Ayers of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America called the focus on affiliate loans “a clear political attack on Planned Parenthood health centers and access to reproductive health care.”

“It has nothing to do with the eligibility of Planned Parenthood’s healthcare organizations for Covid-19 relief efforts,” she added, “and everything to do with the Trump administration using a public health crisis to advance a political agenda and deflect attention from their own failures to protect the American public from the spread of Covid-19. ”

CNN’s Veronica Stracqualursi contributed to this report.

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