Assistance program
Disaster Assistance Loans
$48.1 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Small Business Administration, Small Business Administration
- Assistance
- Direct Loans
- CFDA number
- 59.008
- What it does
- To provide loans to the survivors of declared disasters for uninsured or otherwise uncompensated physical damage and economic injury.
- Who benefits
- Business concerns, charitable and private nonprofit organizations, and individuals. Agricultural enterprises are ineligible.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants must have suffered physical property loss or economic injury as a result of a disaster which occurred in an area declared by the President or SBA. They must also demonstrate an ability and willingness to repay the loan. Business concerns, charitable and private nonprofit organizations and individuals are eligible to apply for assistance.
- Authorized by
- Small Business Act, Section 7(b) (15 U.S.C. 636(b))
- Program site
- http://www.sba.gov/Disaster ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments