13 CFR § 123.504 - How do you apply for a Military Reservist EIDL?

---
identifier: "/us/cfr/t13/s123.504"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "13 CFR § 123.504 - How do you apply for a Military Reservist EIDL?"
title_number: 13
title_name: "Business Credit and Assistance"
section_number: "123.504"
section_name: "How do you apply for a Military Reservist EIDL?"
chapter_name: "SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION"
part_number: "123"
part_name: "DISASTER LOAN PROGRAM"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "15 U.S.C. 632, 634(b)(6), 636(b), 636(d), 657n, 9009, and U.S. Const. art. VI, cl. 10."
regulatory_source: "61 FR 3304, Jan. 31, 1996, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "123"
---


# 123.504 How do you apply for a Military Reservist EIDL?

To apply for a Military Reservist EIDL you must complete a SBA Military Reservist EIDL application package (SBA Form 5R and supporting documentation *can be obtained through SBA's Disaster Area Office*) including:

(a) A copy of the essential employee's official call-up orders for active service showing the date of call-up, and, if known, the date of release from active service. For an essential employee who expects to be called up and who has not received official call-up orders, the application shall include the notice of the expected call-up including, if known, the expected date of call-up and expected date of release from active service;

(b) A statement from the business owner that the reservist is essential to the successful day-to-day operations of the business (detailing the employee's duties and responsibilities and explaining why these duties and responsibilities can't be completed in the essential employee's absence);

(c) A certification by the essential employee supporting that he or she concurs with the business owner's statement as described in paragraph (b) of this section;

(d) A written explanation and financial estimate of how the call-up of the essential employee has or will result in economic injury to your business;

(e) The steps your business is taking to alleviate the economic injury; and

(f) The business owners' certification that the essential employee will be offered the same or a similar job upon the employee's return from active service.

[61 FR 3304, Jan. 31, 1996, as amended at 73 FR 54675, Sept. 23, 2008; 88 FR 24110, Apr. 19, 2023]