Small Business Administration offers disaster assistance to Alto residents, businesses

ALTO, Texas (KTRE) -More relief efforts are still being made in alto to help residents and businesses who were impacted by the April storm.The U.S. Small Business Administration is set up at city hall to assist with the disaster loans application process.During the storms in Alto, Kamran Hassen’s home was destroyed.“Well since I wasn’t there my mom was inside the house, no one was expecting that much damage we lost pretty much everything inside the house, my roof is gone and since we don’t have any rental insurance it was an unexpected thing. Never seen anything like that in my life,” said Hassen.Thanks to the U.S. Small Business Administration helping storm victims apply for disaster loans, Hassen will be able to receive funding."It was easy to fill out the application. She did it all by herself. All she did was get my information and send it to IR. Let’s see if they can approve and help me out with my loan and get my things back,” said Hassen.Applicants can apply on-site at city hall, online or by paper application. SBA then reviews your credit, and a verifier will come out and inspect property losses. The loan approval process takes up to three weeks.