Businesses Given Flexibility to Repay Loans
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has vowed to lift the burden on more than a million businesses who took out a Bounce Back Loan through a new Pay as You Grow flexible repayment system.
This includes extending the length of the loan from six years to ten, which will cut monthly repayments by nearly half. Interest-only periods of up to six months and payment holidays will also be available to businesses. It is hoped that these measures will further protect jobs by helping businesses recover from the pandemic.
The Government also intends to give Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme lenders the ability to extend the length of loans from a maximum of six years to ten years if it will help businesses to repay the loan.
In addition, the Chancellor also announced he would be extending applications for the Government’s coronavirus loan schemes until the end of November. As a result, more businesses will now be able to benefit from the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme, the Bounce Back Loan Scheme and the Future Fund. This change aligns the end dates of each of these schemes.
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