{"id":65547,"date":"2023-10-12T04:28:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T08:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/?p=65547"},"modified":"2023-10-12T04:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T08:28:08","slug":"small-business-administration-is-turning-up-the-heat-on-fraudsters-in-the-hubzone-small-business-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/small-business-administration-is-turning-up-the-heat-on-fraudsters-in-the-hubzone-small-business-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Administration is turning up the heat on fraudsters in the HUBZone small business program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Small Business Administration is turning up the heat on fraudsters in the HUBZone small business program. SBA said it will take five steps as part of a renewed effort to root out fraud and reinforce the integrity of the contracting program. Among the new initiatives are soon-to-be-proposed revisions to the HUBZone regulations to further clarify and strengthen requirements for businesses which hire people who live in a HUBZone. SBA is also removing companies which claim to hire workers who live in a HUBZone, but do not, and will increase audits of companies in the program to make sure they are following the rules.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sba.gov\/article\/2023\/09\/20\/us-small-business-administration-acts-safeguard-integrity-hubzone-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SBA adds new safeguards to HUBZone program<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/SBA.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SBA.gov<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/federal-newscast\/2023\/10\/new-army-chief-of-staff-targets-the-network-as-top-modernization-priority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: New Army chief of staff targets \u2018the network\u2019 as top modernization priority. BY Peter Musurlian, October 11, 2023. Federal News Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Small Business Administration is turning up the heat on fraudsters in the HUBZone small business program. SBA said it will take five steps as part of a renewed effort to root out fraud and reinforce the integrity of the contracting program. Among the new initiatives are soon-to-be-proposed revisions to the HUBZone regulations to further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1189,"featured_media":51568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5614,461084],"tags":[7893,703928],"class_list":["post-65547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-federal-citizen-services","category-news","tag-small-business-administration-sba","tag-federal-citizen-services"],"acf":{"uuid":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.orangeslices.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/22002250\/Untitled-design-94.png","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-03-21 21:46:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65548,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547\/revisions\/65548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangeslices.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}