disastercustomerservice@sba.gov<\/a> for more information in disaster assistance.<\/p>\nIn Polk County, a mandatory evacuation order and a disaster declaration was issued on Tuesday after the county faced \u00e2\u20ac\u0153significant threats to life and property\u00e2\u20ac\u009d due to heavy overnight rainfall that caused flooding in low-lying areas.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For Texans who have been impacted by storms and flooding last month, this SBA disaster declaration will help them access the crucial financial assistance they need to recover and rebuild,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Abbott said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Impacted Texans will be able to qualify for low-interest loans so they can begin to rebuild their homes and businesses that sustained storm damage.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
The SBA granted access to Home Disaster Loans, Business Physical Disaster Loans and Economic Injury Disaster Loan to provide homeowners, renters and businesses affected by the severe weather with low-interest loans.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thank the Texas Division of Emergency Management for working with our federal partners to ensure Texans have the resources and assistance they need to move forward,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Abbott said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) approved Gov. Greg Abbott\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s request for a disaster declaration for Texas communities affected by severe weather including many portions of East Texas. Texas counties in the disaster declaration include Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange, Sabine, San Augustine and Tyler. The Trinity Fire and Rescue responded to multiple … Continue reading Disaster relief loans now available for East Texans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1318760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/05\/2024-05-02_060220-220x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Disaster relief loans now available for East Texans","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 03:53:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/05\/2024-05-02_060220-220x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Disaster relief loans now available for East Texans","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318761,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318758\/revisions\/1318761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1318760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) approved Gov. Greg Abbott\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s request for a disaster declaration for Texas communities affected by severe weather including many portions of East Texas. Texas counties in the disaster declaration include Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange, Sabine, San Augustine and Tyler. The Trinity Fire and Rescue responded to multiple storm related calls including homes destroyed by a tornado and multiple calls of people trapped in flooded cars and houses.<\/p>\n