Businesses must meet the following criteria to qualify for economic injury: The business was directly impacted by the disaster. The business cannot cover expenses due to the disaster and/or debt payments. The business was physically located in the declared disaster area.
In addition to meeting the numerical standards for small, your business must: Be a for-profit business of any legal structure. Be independently owned and operated. Not be nationally dominant in its field. Be physically located and operate in the U.S. or its territories.
You may report fraud, waste, mismanagement, or misconduct involving SBA programs or employees either online or by calling the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at 800-767-0385.
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.