{"id":319670,"date":"2020-03-24T06:05:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=319670"},"modified":"2020-03-24T06:05:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:05:17","slug":"sba-loans-for-nmi-small-businesses-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sba-loans-for-nmi-small-businesses-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"SBA loans for NMI small businesses now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of March 21, 2020, the U.S. Small Business Administration is now offering low-interest federal disaster loans for working capital to Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for small businesses suffering substantial economic injury as a result of the coronavirus, or COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Find links to the SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loan on the Saipan Chamber of Commerce\u2019s\u00a0Coronavirus Resource Page, which clearly explains loan program eligibility and how to fill out the application.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants may apply online, receive additional disaster assistance information, and download applications at https:\/\/disasterloan.sba.gov\/ela. Applicants may also call SBA\u2019s Customer Service Center at (800) 659-2955 or email\u00a0disastercustomerservice@sba.gov\u00a0for more information on SBA disaster assistance. Individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing may call (800) 877-8339. Completed applications should be mailed to U.S. Small Business Administration, Processing and Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155.<\/p>\n<p>If you are having trouble filling out the form, first check the linked \u201cSBA Economic Injury Disaster Loan Presentation.\u201d If you still have questions, contact CNMI SBDC Director Nicole Babauta at\u00a0nbabauta@pacificsbdc.com\u00a0or 670-287-3018. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of March 21, 2020, the U.S. Small Business Administration is now offering low-interest federal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[257,1204],"class_list":["post-319670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-nmi","tag-sba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}