Want to be qualified for 8a certification? You should be a disadvantaged individual owning your small business. Being a disadvantaged individual, you should own at least 51% of the firm. Moreover, you should be socially as well as economically disadvantaged. You need to be a Hispanic, Native American, Asian American or African American in order to claim yourself as socially disadvantaged. And for being economically disadvantaged, you should not have more than 250,000 dollars of personal net worth.














