{"id":129634,"date":"2020-03-23T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=129634"},"modified":"2020-03-23T16:03:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T21:03:06","slug":"rlf-defers-payments-offers-business-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/03\/23\/rlf-defers-payments-offers-business-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"RLF defers payments; some loans available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the first case of coronavirus in the U.S. was confirmed last month, residents and many businesses have been impacted.&nbsp;In anticipation of this impact, last week, the Revolving Loan Fund Board made a decision to offer loan payment deferrals for three months, without interest, for current loans, with the ability to reassess.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Area Economic Development Corporation reached out to the Ohio Development Services Agency (ODSA) a week ago asking about revisions that would allow quick financial support to small businesses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, ODSA provided revised guidelines that allow flexible financing terms for new loans during the COVID-19 emergency.&nbsp;Although limited, the RLF currently has funds available.&nbsp;Effective immediately, the fund will accept pre-applications from local businesses for low-interest loans to be used for working capital.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those interested should provide their name, business name, phone number, and email to&nbsp;<a>info@vanwerted.com<\/a>&nbsp;or contact the Economic Development office at 419.238.2999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RLF is doing its part to respond as best it can during these challenging times to support businesses and the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Since the first case of coronavirus in the U.S. was confirmed last month, residents and many businesses have been impacted.&nbsp;In anticipation of this impact, last week, the Revolving Loan Fund Board made a decision to offer loan payment deferrals for three months, without interest, for current loans, with the ability to reassess.&nbsp;&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 01:30:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}