For homeowners that have a FHA-insured mortgage loan, they can now rely on a loss mitigation assistance before they get too far in the hole on their mortgage payments. Before, this was only an option for those who had already missed payments and not as a preventative measure. Effective immediately, the loss mitigation options of forbearance and FHA's Home Affordable Modification Program (FHA-HAMP) may be used to assist borrowers facing imminent default.-FHA defines an "FHA borrower facing imminent default" to be an FHA borrower who is current or less than 30 days past due on the mortgage obligation and is experiencing a significant reduction in income or some other hardship that will prevent him or her from making the next required payment on the mortgage during the month that it is due.
-A forbearance agreement is an agreement by the loan servicer to postpone, reduce or suspend payments due on a loan for a limited and specific time period.
-FHA-HAMP allows qualified FHA-insured borrowers to reduce their monthly mortgage payment to an affordable level by permanently reducing the payment through the use of a partial claim combined with a loan modification. The partial claim defers the repayment of a portion of the mortgage principal through an interest-free subordinate mortgage that is not due until the first mortgage is paid off. The remaining balance is then modified through re-amortization and in some cases, an interest rate reduction.
The borrower must be able to document the cause of the imminent default which may include, but is not limited to, one or more of the following types of hardship:
1. A reduction in or loss of income that was supporting the mortgage loan, e.g., unemployment, reduced job hours, reduced pay, or a decline in self-employed business earnings. A scheduled temporary shutdown of the employer, (such as for a scheduled vacation), would not in and by itself be adequate to support an imminent default.
2. A change in household financial circumstances, e.g., death in family, serious or chronic illness, permanent or short-term disability.
Loan servicers must document the basis for its determination that a payment default is imminent and retain all documentation used to reach its conclusion. The servicer's documentation must also include information on the borrower's financial condition.
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