Nearly One Quarter of Federal Foreclosure Prevention Participants Re-Defaulting on Mortgages
While President Obama is set to make a "major economic address" tomorrow, the consequences of his policies often speak for themselves.
While President Obama is set to make a "major economic address" tomorrow, the consequences of his policies often speak for themselves.
Borrowers who received help through the government's main foreclosure prevention program are re-defaulting on their mortgages at alarming rates, a federal watchdog said in a report released Wednesday.
Nearly 1.2 million mortgage modifications have been completed since the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) was first launched four years ago. Yet more than 306,000 borrowers have re-defaulted on their loans and more than 88,000 are at risk of following suit, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) found in its quarterly report to Congress.
In addition, the watchdog found that the longer a homeowner stays in the HAMP modification program, the more likely they are to default. Those who have been in the program since 2009, are re-defaulting at a rate of 46%, the inspector general found.
Who'd have thunk it?
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