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Source documents by program
6,921 source documents across 8 programs. A case can be listed under more than one program, so 356 of these source documents appear in two or more groups and the group counts add to 7,422.
Source documents grouped by the relief program they name most, using the same census as the court filings: reports, letters, hearings and litigation documents about PPP, COVID EIDL, unemployment insurance, RRF, SVOG, the ERC and the smaller programs.
- Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)2,826 source documents· Forgivable SBA-guaranteed loans made through banks and fintech platforms in 2020 and 2021; the largest program and the most prosecuted.
- COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL)643 source documents· SBA disaster loans and advances made directly by the agency, April 2020 to 2022.
- Pandemic unemployment insurance934 source documents· Federally funded pandemic unemployment benefits paid by the states (PUA, FPUC, PEUC), including the California EDD litigation.
- Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF)158 source documents· Grants to restaurants and bars under the American Rescue Plan, 2021.
- Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG)210 source documents· Grants to live-venue operators, museums and theaters, 2021.
- Employee Retention Credit (ERC)57 source documents· The payroll tax credit for retained employees, claimed through the IRS.
- Other relief programs849 source documents· Provider Relief Fund, Main Street Lending Program, Coronavirus Relief Fund and ARPA fiscal recovery money.
- Other pandemic litigation1,745 source documents· Cases whose filings name no relief program: vaccine and mask mandates, closure orders, insurance, immigration and other pandemic-era disputes.
How the groups are built. A record is listed under a program when the filings of its case, taken together, name that program at least three times in their text and at least one-twentieth as often as the program they name most. Documents from the same court docket count as one case. The census is mechanical, runs over the full text of every page in the section, and is re-run with every build.