As of January 2025, there are no plans to forgive outstanding SBA EIDL loans. There are a variety of challenges involved with widespread forgiveness.
As of January 2025, there are no plans to forgive outstanding SBA EIDL loans.
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.
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.
Am I eligible for PSLF if I'm a contractor? You must be a direct employee of a qualifying employer for your employment to qualify. This means that employees of contracted organizations, that are not themselves a qualifying employer, won't qualify for PSLF including government contractors and for-profit organizations.
Applying for forgiveness using the portal can take as little as 15 minutes. The questions you will be asked in the portal correspond to those asked on SBA Form 3508, SBA Form 3508EZ, or SBA form 3508S. If you would prefer to work with your lender, lenders can still accept PPP forgiveness applications directly.
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.
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.