DALLAS (AP) \u2013 The federal government is offering low-interest disaster loans to residents and business owners in 13 East and North Texas counties damaged by April 3 tornadoes and other storms. Small business Administration Administrator Karen Mills announced the disaster designation Tuesday. An SBA statement says the move came in response to an April 13 request from Gov. Rick Perry.<\/p>\n
The disaster declaration makes the assistance available in Van Zandt, Henderson, Kaufman, Hunt, Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, Denton, Ellis, Johnson, Parker, Rockwall, and Wise counties. The filing deadline for property damage is June 18, while the deadline to return economic injury applications is Jan. 17. Information is available from http:\/\/www.sba.gov\/services\/disasterassistance<\/a> or 800-659-2955. You can also contact disastercustomerservice@sba.gov<\/a> via e-mail. The deaf or hard-of-hearing may call 800-877-8339.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DALLAS (AP) \u2013 The federal government is offering low-interest disaster loans to residents and business owners in 13 East and North Texas counties damaged by April 3 tornadoes and other storms. Small business Administration Administrator Karen Mills announced the disaster designation Tuesday. An SBA statement says the move came in response to an April 13 … Continue reading Federal Disaster Aid Offered to Some East Texas Residents<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 00:01:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181774","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181774"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182062,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181774\/revisions\/182062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}