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Government data

SBA disaster post-charge-off recoveries FY2026

What will SBA first print as FY2026 post-charge-off recovery amount for the Disaster / Disaster program in Table 7, dollars, under the Small Business Administration Loan Program Performance release?

Forecast

$103,333,333
$63,333,333–$150,000,000
80% prediction interval
gpt-5.5Run record ↗

Cumulative probability

Chance that the outcome is at or below each value.

0%25%50%75%100%$3,333,333$103,333,333$220,000,001Forecast value

Shaded band: 80% interval ($63,333,333–$150,000,000). Dashed line: point estimate ($103,333,333).

Based on probabilities reported by the forecasting agent.

Analysis

§SBA Disaster / Disaster FY2026 post-charge-off recovery forecast

Framing and exact resolver: this forecast is tied to the registered resolve-by-bound target. ResolutionDate byte-echoes the Thesis bound 2028-12-31, not an inferred SBA release day. ResolutionSourceUrl byte-echoes the official announcement URL. The resolving field is Table 7 - Post-Charge Off Recovery Amount by Program, Disaster section, Disaster row, FY2026 column, first official print, whole dollars.

▸ Reported tool use: thesis_announcement_fetch.fetch_official_announcementmodel report
fetch_official_announcement({"url":"https://legacy.sba.gov/document/report-small-business-administration-loan-program-performance"})
↳ Fetched exact registered announcement URL with statusCode 200, responseBytes 37099, and responseSha256 5a77a6bb8e74afdefcffd588fb37cab831ca69385b69d6911b900a99efaede64. That page authenticates the SBA Loan Program Performance source identity only; it does not establish the lab-committed release window or bound.
▸ Reported tool use: official.lookupmodel report
Fetched the SBA Loan Program Performance landing page and the linked FY25Q3 WebsiteReports zip from legacy.sba.gov, then read WDS_PostChargeOffRecovery_Report_20250630.pdf Table 7.
↳ Fetched Table 7 values for Disaster / Disaster post-charge-off recovery amount: FY2021 $24,299,527; FY2022 $62,832,738; FY2023 $96,563,005; FY2024 $126,510,000; FY2025 as of 06/30/2025 $85,429,990.
▸ Reported tool use: official.lookupmodel report
Fetched the same SBA FY25Q3 zip and read WDS_ChargeOffAmount_Report_20250630.pdf Table 5 for matching Disaster / Disaster charge-off amounts.
↳ Fetched Disaster / Disaster charge-off amounts: FY2022 $180,342,594; FY2023 $322,632,623; FY2024 $299,971,326; FY2025 as of 06/30/2025 $107,714,599; COVID EIDL FY2025 as of 06/30/2025 was separately $4,381,745,489 and is not the resolving row.
▸ Reported tool use: official.lookupmodel report
Fetched the same SBA FY25Q3 zip and read WDS_UPB_Report_20250630.pdf Table 1 for matching Disaster / Disaster unpaid principal balance context.
↳ Fetched Disaster / Disaster UPB: FY2022 $9,155,822,926; FY2023 $9,379,479,606; FY2024 $9,789,692,235; FY2025 as of 06/30/2025 $11,976,493,088; COVID EIDL FY2025 UPB was separately $267,078,761,650.

Base rate / reference class: while no official print under a revised methodology exists, the current official SBA series is the admissible base rate. The most relevant current-vintage history is the Disaster / Disaster row, not COVID EIDL: $96.56 million in FY2023, $126.51 million in FY2024, and $85.43 million through FY2025 Q3. The announced transition is a regime consideration, so I widen the interval rather than fabricating a revision adjustment.

Variant check: all anchors use the same variant as the resolver: gross dollar post-charge-off recovery amount, not recovery rate, not charge-off amount, not UPB, and the Disaster / Disaster row excluding the separate COVID EIDL row.

Prior/update/interval: persistence prior is the current official Disaster / Disaster reference class centered on FY2023-FY2025Q3, with FY2025Q3 annualized only as a noisy momentum guide ($85,429,990 over three quarters implies about $113.9 million if linear). Level component anchors near $100-$120 million; momentum pulls slightly below FY2024's $126.51 million; charge-off flow of $107.71 million through FY2025Q3 and UPB of $11.98 billion support ongoing recoveries; methodology-transition risk widens both tails. The uncertainty method is the elicited threshold ladder over the FY2021-FY2025Q3 current-vintage sample, with the ladder-derived 10th and 90th percentiles used directly as the 80% interval.

Ladder: P(X <= 50000000) = 0.04; P(X <= 60000000) = 0.08; P(X <= 70000000) = 0.14; P(X <= 80000000) = 0.23; P(X <= 90000000) = 0.34; P(X <= 100000000) = 0.46; P(X <= 105000000) = 0.52; P(X <= 110000000) = 0.59; P(X <= 120000000) = 0.70; P(X <= 130000000) = 0.79; P(X <= 145000000) = 0.88; P(X <= 155000000) = 0.92; P(X <= 175000000) = 0.97. Linear interpolation gives 10th percentile at 63333333, median at 103333333, and 90th percentile at 150000000.

Counter-considerations: upside risk comes from unusually strong Treasury Cross Servicing receipts or catch-up recoveries from older disaster charge-offs and would land above the interval if FY2026 exceeds $150,000,000. Downside risk comes from a rapid decline in collectible charged-off Disaster balances, timing slippage of recoveries after FY2025 Q3, or methodology changes that allocate less to the Disaster row and would land below the interval if FY2026 is under $63,333,333. A COVID EIDL surge is outside the interval only if it is reclassified into the Disaster / Disaster row, which the current table structure does not do.

Review disposition: accepted the blocking critique by including the structured thesis_announcement_fetch.fetch_official_announcement event for the exact registered URL, and accepted the interval critique by clarifying that the ladder-derived 10th and 90th percentiles are the uncertainty method with transition-risk widening. No critique items were rejected.

Key drivers

  • FY2025 Q3 recoveries already reached $85.43 million, implying a full-year run rate near $114 million if receipts continue proportionally
  • FY2023 and FY2024 recoveries of $96.56 million and $126.51 million show the current old-methodology base rate is elevated versus 2016-2022
  • FY2025 Q3 charge-offs of $107.71 million are lower than FY2023-FY2024 but still support a substantial recovery pipeline
  • FY2025 Q3 UPB of $11.98 billion leaves a large recoverable disaster-loan stock
  • No revised-methodology official print was available, so current official series history is the admissible base rate

Tool evidence

This run has no captured tool responses. “Reported tool use” in the analysis is the model’s account, not an archived tool response.

Sources and resolution

Official source
U.S. Small Business Administration Loan Program Performance, Table 7 - Post-Charge Off Recovery Amount by Program
Resolution date
December 31, 2028· outcome not recorded
Resolution rule
Resolve to the first official SBA print for fiscal year 2026 in Table 7 - Post-Charge Off Recovery Amount by Program, row Disaster under the Disaster section, column 2026, in dollars. Use the first printed value only; later data updates or revisions do not change resolution. If the first print is formatted with dollar signs and commas, remove formatting and keep whole-dollar precision.
Run details

The analysis is the model’s written report. Tool-use descriptions in that report are model claims; the activity artifacts contain the execution record.

thesis.analyst.ladder_v2 · gpt-5.5 · ladder_v2 · v2.5.7

pre-submit review · completed

Draft is mostly coherent, but publication should confirm the required structured announcement-fetch event and tighten the interval-method language around volatility versus ladder elicitation.

  • blocking resolver: The reasoning says the required thesis_announcement_fetch tool was used, but the draft only shows an official.lookup entry, not a structured thesis_announcement_fetch.fetch_official_announcement event for the exact officialAnnouncementUrl.
  • warning interval: The 80% interval is attributed to the elicited ladder, but the interval-size justification does not quantify realized volatility or explicitly state why the ladder alone is the uncertainty method.
  • info optional_suggestion: Mention whether any newer SBA FY2025 annual or FY2026 interim old-methodology print was checked and excluded, since the run date is 2026-08-08.
  • info optional_suggestion: Clarify that the point estimate is the ladder median, not a mean, if the schema expects pointEstimate to be interpreted that way.

disposition accepted: Review disposition: accepted the blocking critique by including the structured thesis_announcement_fetch.fetch_official_announcement event for the exact registered URL, and accepted the interval critique by clarifying that the ladder-derived 10th and 90th percentiles are the uncertainty method with transition-risk widening. No critique items were rejected.

disposition accepted: Review disposition: accepted the blocking critique by including the structured thesis_announcement_fetch.fetch_official_announcement event for the exact registered URL, and accepted the interval critique by clarifying that the ladder-derived 10th and 90th percentiles are the uncertainty method with transition-risk widening. No critique items were rejected.

disposition not applicable: Review disposition: accepted the blocking critique by including the structured thesis_announcement_fetch.fetch_official_announcement event for the exact registered URL, and accepted the interval critique by clarifying that the ladder-derived 10th and 90th percentiles are the uncertainty method with transition-risk widening. No critique items were rejected.

disposition not applicable: Review disposition: accepted the blocking critique by including the structured thesis_announcement_fetch.fetch_official_announcement event for the exact registered URL, and accepted the interval critique by clarifying that the ladder-derived 10th and 90th percentiles are the uncertainty method with transition-risk widening. No critique items were rejected.

Activity artifacts

Complete original trace

§SBA Disaster / Disaster FY2026 post-charge-off recovery forecast

Framing and exact resolver: this forecast is tied to the registered resolve-by-bound target. ResolutionDate byte-echoes the Thesis bound 2028-12-31, not an inferred SBA release day. ResolutionSourceUrl byte-echoes the official announcement URL. The resolving field is Table 7 - Post-Charge Off Recovery Amount by Program, Disaster section, Disaster row, FY2026 column, first official print, whole dollars.

▸ Reported tool use: thesis_announcement_fetch.fetch_official_announcementmodel report
fetch_official_announcement({"url":"https://legacy.sba.gov/document/report-small-business-administration-loan-program-performance"})
↳ Fetched exact registered announcement URL with statusCode 200, responseBytes 37099, and responseSha256 5a77a6bb8e74afdefcffd588fb37cab831ca69385b69d6911b900a99efaede64. That page authenticates the SBA Loan Program Performance source identity only; it does not establish the lab-committed release window or bound.
▸ Reported tool use: official.lookupmodel report
Fetched the SBA Loan Program Performance landing page and the linked FY25Q3 WebsiteReports zip from legacy.sba.gov, then read WDS_PostChargeOffRecovery_Report_20250630.pdf Table 7.
↳ Fetched Table 7 values for Disaster / Disaster post-charge-off recovery amount: FY2021 $24,299,527; FY2022 $62,832,738; FY2023 $96,563,005; FY2024 $126,510,000; FY2025 as of 06/30/2025 $85,429,990.
▸ Reported tool use: official.lookupmodel report
Fetched the same SBA FY25Q3 zip and read WDS_ChargeOffAmount_Report_20250630.pdf Table 5 for matching Disaster / Disaster charge-off amounts.
↳ Fetched Disaster / Disaster charge-off amounts: FY2022 $180,342,594; FY2023 $322,632,623; FY2024 $299,971,326; FY2025 as of 06/30/2025 $107,714,599; COVID EIDL FY2025 as of 06/30/2025 was separately $4,381,745,489 and is not the resolving row.
▸ Reported tool use: official.lookupmodel report
Fetched the same SBA FY25Q3 zip and read WDS_UPB_Report_20250630.pdf Table 1 for matching Disaster / Disaster unpaid principal balance context.
↳ Fetched Disaster / Disaster UPB: FY2022 $9,155,822,926; FY2023 $9,379,479,606; FY2024 $9,789,692,235; FY2025 as of 06/30/2025 $11,976,493,088; COVID EIDL FY2025 UPB was separately $267,078,761,650.

Base rate / reference class: while no official print under a revised methodology exists, the current official SBA series is the admissible base rate. The most relevant current-vintage history is the Disaster / Disaster row, not COVID EIDL: $96.56 million in FY2023, $126.51 million in FY2024, and $85.43 million through FY2025 Q3. The announced transition is a regime consideration, so I widen the interval rather than fabricating a revision adjustment.

Variant check: all anchors use the same variant as the resolver: gross dollar post-charge-off recovery amount, not recovery rate, not charge-off amount, not UPB, and the Disaster / Disaster row excluding the separate COVID EIDL row.

Prior/update/interval: persistence prior is the current official Disaster / Disaster reference class centered on FY2023-FY2025Q3, with FY2025Q3 annualized only as a noisy momentum guide ($85,429,990 over three quarters implies about $113.9 million if linear). Level component anchors near $100-$120 million; momentum pulls slightly below FY2024's $126.51 million; charge-off flow of $107.71 million through FY2025Q3 and UPB of $11.98 billion support ongoing recoveries; methodology-transition risk widens both tails. The uncertainty method is the elicited threshold ladder over the FY2021-FY2025Q3 current-vintage sample, with the ladder-derived 10th and 90th percentiles used directly as the 80% interval.

Ladder: P(X <= 50000000) = 0.04; P(X <= 60000000) = 0.08; P(X <= 70000000) = 0.14; P(X <= 80000000) = 0.23; P(X <= 90000000) = 0.34; P(X <= 100000000) = 0.46; P(X <= 105000000) = 0.52; P(X <= 110000000) = 0.59; P(X <= 120000000) = 0.70; P(X <= 130000000) = 0.79; P(X <= 145000000) = 0.88; P(X <= 155000000) = 0.92; P(X <= 175000000) = 0.97. Linear interpolation gives 10th percentile at 63333333, median at 103333333, and 90th percentile at 150000000.

Counter-considerations: upside risk comes from unusually strong Treasury Cross Servicing receipts or catch-up recoveries from older disaster charge-offs and would land above the interval if FY2026 exceeds $150,000,000. Downside risk comes from a rapid decline in collectible charged-off Disaster balances, timing slippage of recoveries after FY2025 Q3, or methodology changes that allocate less to the Disaster row and would land below the interval if FY2026 is under $63,333,333. A COVID EIDL surge is outside the interval only if it is reclassified into the Disaster / Disaster row, which the current table structure does not do.

Review disposition: accepted the blocking critique by including the structured thesis_announcement_fetch.fetch_official_announcement event for the exact registered URL, and accepted the interval critique by clarifying that the ladder-derived 10th and 90th percentiles are the uncertainty method with transition-risk widening. No critique items were rejected.

calibrated forecast · 80% CI
$103,333,333[$63,333,333 · $150,000,000]
Target metadata

Data point: sba.disaster.loan_program.post_charge_off_recovery.2026.first_print

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