All borrowers, regardless of loan size, can use SBA's direct forgiveness portal. Applying for forgiveness using the portal can take as little as 15 minutes.A business may qualify for both an EIDL and a physical disaster loan. The SBA now offers three programs struggling businesses can use to obtain forgivable operating funds provided they qualify. Create an account in the MySBA Loan Portal (lending.sba. Gov) to monitor your loan status or to make payments. The loan is forgiven at the end of the 8-week period after you take out the loan. There is no provision for forgiveness on these loans, nor should anyone expect that there will be. The EIDL is a decades-old program. The Small Business Administration (SBA) offers lowinterest loans after a declared disaster.