SAN ANTONIO – South-Central Texas residents and businesses impacted by severe storms in August now have access to federal disaster loan assistance after the U.S. Small Business Administration approved Texas Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s request to expand a federal disaster declaration.<\/p>\n
Abbott\u2019s office said the declaration covers Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall, Medina and Wilson counties.<\/p>\n
\u201cTexans across South-Central Texas impacted by these severe storms now have additional resources to help them recover and rebuild,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cThis SBA assistance will provide critical support to homeowners, renters, and businesses as they work to recover from the damage. I thank the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Texas Division of Emergency Management for their partnership and continued work to support communities affected by these storms.\u201d<\/p>\n
The SBA assistance includes Home Disaster Loans, Business Physical Disaster Loans and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, offering low-interest loans to qualifying homeowners, renters and businesses, according to the governor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
People can apply online and find information at sba.gov\/disaster. The SBA Customer Service Center can be reached at (800) 659-2955 or by email at disastercustomerservice@sba.gov. Those who are deaf, hard of hearing or have a speech disability can dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services.<\/p>\n
Completed applications should be mailed to the U.S. Small Business Administration, Processing and Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155.<\/p>\n
SBA representatives are also set to open a Disaster Loan Outreach Center to explain the application process, help complete applications and answer questions. Starting tomorrow, the center will be located at Las Palmas Library, 515 Castroville Road in San Antonio, TX 78237. It will be open Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Tuesdays from noon to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n
Abbott\u2019s office said the governor has also taken additional steps in response to the storms, including requesting SBA disaster assistance for Bexar County and surrounding counties, announcing an extension for Bexar County SNAP recipients to request replacement benefits for food lost or destroyed by recent storms, and directing the Texas Division of Emergency Management to request joint preliminary damage assessments with the SBA and state and local partners in Bexar County communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – South-Central Texas residents and businesses impacted by severe storms in August now have access to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-436049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}