Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was accused in a lawsuit of illegally seizing millions of dollars in tax refunds from students who defaulted on federal loans despite a congressional ban on such collections during the pandemic.

The House voted Thursday to give small businesses financially strapped by the Covid-19 crisis more flexibility to spend forgivable loans for payrolls and expenses from the government’s popular Paycheck Protection Program.

A new House bill introduced Friday would give businesses a temporary tax break for the costs of cleaning their locations as employees return to work and companies re-open their doors to customers.

The $669 billion coronavirus relief loan program to keep 30 million U.S. small businesses afloat during the crippling pandemic has abruptly slowed. Created at the end of March as a stopgap to keep workers employed for eight weeks during a self-induced coma of the economy, the program known as PPP is about to outlive its own purpose.

New Jersey has extended tax deadlines for property owners and New York lawmakers approved a similar plan. Here’s the latest on shifting state tax guidelines, deadlines, and policy to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. For our recent coverage click here. Here’s a state-by-state roadmap.

California voters will decide in November whether commercial properties should be annually assessed at market value as part of an effort to raise at least $7.5 billion a year for local governments and schools.

U.S. airlines have yet to tap $29 billion in federal pandemic relief loans as they wait to see whether the reopening of the economy revives demand and diminishes the need for money that comes with government strings attached.

Read more: The White House isn’t planning to release its economic forecast. Restrictions on aid funds are creating debate at the state level. House Democrats raised concerns about Treasury’s pre-loaded debit cards for virus relief payments.