The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is rolling out a new loss mitigation home retention option aimed at delinquent borrowers with FHA-insured single-family forward mortgages. The new option is called the Payment Supplement and it allows mortgage servicers to...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is disbursing more than $1.2 million in refunds to borrowers who lost money to Consumer Defense, a fraudulent mortgage modification scheme. The FTC is sending payments to 6,261 consumers who will each receive $201.34. The agency...