No EIDL forgiveness Whether COVID-related or traditional, EIDL loans are not forgivable. Borrowers must repay them over 30 years, but there are no prepayment penalties for paying them off early.
As of January 2025, there are no plans to forgive outstanding SBA EIDL loans. There are a variety of challenges involved with widespread forgiveness.
3508EZ: Borrowers who are self-employed with no employees OR borrowers who did not reduce employee salaries by more than 25% and did not reduce employee hours OR borrowers who reduced business activity due to COVID-19 health guidelines and did not reduce employee salaries by more than 25%
COVID-19 EIDL is not forgivable.
As of January 2025, there are no plans to forgive outstanding SBA EIDL loans.
As of January 2025, there are no plans to forgive outstanding SBA EIDL loans. There are a variety of challenges involved with widespread forgiveness.
There is no provision for forgiveness on these loans, nor should anyone expect that there will be. The EIDL is a decades-old program, and if they forgive loans for this particular disaster, then borrowers for every other EIDL program are going to expect forgiveness on their loans as well. It's not happening.