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SBA 7(a) Loan
The U.S. Small Business Administration's SBA 7(a) Loan program is the SBA's primary business loan program for providing financial assistance to small businesses. It is designed to expand access to financing to current and prospective American small business owners. The program is so named because it was originally created by Section 7(a) of the Small Business Act of 1953, which also created the SBA itself.
The 7(a) program is a public-private partnership. The lenders make the credit decisions and lend the money, as with a conventional loan, while the U.S. federal government provides a partial guarantee of the loan to the lender. This guarantee incentivizes the lender to make riskier credit decisions, allowing them to lend to a wider array of borrowers than they would otherwise.
The 7(a) program is designed to operates as a zero-subsidy program, operating without taxpayer funds. This is possible due to loan fees charged by the SBA, which typically bring in more revenue than the SBA must pay out in guarantees for unsuccessful loans.
70,242 SBA 7(a) loans were approved in FY2024, worth a combined $31.1 billion.
SBA 7(a) loans have a wide array of uses. Common uses for SBA 7(a) loans include:
To be eligible to receive an SBA 7(a) loan, a business must:
Notably, investment businesses (any business where the majority of revenue is from rent, such as multifamily housing, strip malls, etc.) are ineligible for SBA 7(a) loans.
All owners must:
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SBA 7(a) Loan
The U.S. Small Business Administration's SBA 7(a) Loan program is the SBA's primary business loan program for providing financial assistance to small businesses. It is designed to expand access to financing to current and prospective American small business owners. The program is so named because it was originally created by Section 7(a) of the Small Business Act of 1953, which also created the SBA itself.
The 7(a) program is a public-private partnership. The lenders make the credit decisions and lend the money, as with a conventional loan, while the U.S. federal government provides a partial guarantee of the loan to the lender. This guarantee incentivizes the lender to make riskier credit decisions, allowing them to lend to a wider array of borrowers than they would otherwise.
The 7(a) program is designed to operates as a zero-subsidy program, operating without taxpayer funds. This is possible due to loan fees charged by the SBA, which typically bring in more revenue than the SBA must pay out in guarantees for unsuccessful loans.
70,242 SBA 7(a) loans were approved in FY2024, worth a combined $31.1 billion.
SBA 7(a) loans have a wide array of uses. Common uses for SBA 7(a) loans include:
To be eligible to receive an SBA 7(a) loan, a business must:
Notably, investment businesses (any business where the majority of revenue is from rent, such as multifamily housing, strip malls, etc.) are ineligible for SBA 7(a) loans.
All owners must:
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