Many small business owners do not know they can apply for both an EIDL loan and a PPP loan for the same COVID-19 disaster. There are rules, including the key requirement that you can’t use money from both loans for the same thing. For example, if you use the proceeds from a PPP loan for payroll, you can’t use an EIDL loan for payroll also.
Before you apply for a PPP loan, you may want to look more closely at the EIDL program to see if it might be a better fit or to decide if applying for both loans makes sense in your case. The table below provides a basic comparison of the two programs.
Can you apply to both the EIDL and PPP programs?
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