Small Business Administration

The Office of Inspector General is issuing this management advisory to gain an understanding of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) servicing processes and determine its capability to service more than 2 million COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans...

This report details the Office of Inspector General's Spring 2025 - Semiannual Report to Congress. The following topics are included: Overview of the SBA and the OIG SBA's Top Management and Performance Challenges Summary of OIG Oversight Work Small Business Access to Capital Disaster Assistance...

This independent auditors’ report on the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) improper payment reporting is required by the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019. We contracted with the independent certified public accounting firm KPMG LLP to conduct a performance audit of SBA’s fiscal...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is issuing this Evaluation Report to determine whether the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) made Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans in accordance with program size standards. This is a follow-up to our earlier report which identified 355 PPP loans...

This report summarizes the results of our fiscal year 2024 Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) evaluation and assessment of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) information security program. Our objectives were to determine whether SBA complied with FISMA and assessed...

This report presents the results of our management advisory bringing the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) attention to concerns regarding forgiven Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans subsequently flagged as potentially ineligible using hold code 70 (potential clawback) for which the agency...

The Office of Inspector General is issuing this management advisory to bring to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) attention possible security threats from personally owned devices accessing the agency’s information technology network from national and international locations with only a...

This report updates Congress on progress made by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) on the 39 open pandemic-related recommendations referenced in Office of Inspector General (OIG) Report 23-09, COVID-19 Pandemic EIDL and PPP Loan Fraud Landscape. Over the course of the Coronavirus Disease...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is issuing this report to show those recommendations from U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports that remained open as of December 31, 2024. As of that date, there were 166 open OIG recommendations. SBA provided...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is issuing this Evaluation report to assess the Small Business Administration’s process for awarding Small Business Lending Company (SBLC) licenses and its compliance with licensing procedures. An SBLC is a non-depository lending institution that is licensed and...