If you have an FHA, USDA or VA loan and have a pandemic-related hardship, you can request a mortgage forbearance until June 30 of this year and can miss up to 12 months of payments.
There isn’t currently a deadline to apply if you have a Fannie Mae- or Freddie Mac-backed loan. As with FHA, USDA and VA loans, new enrollees are limited to a maximum of 12 months of missed payments.To sign up, contact your mortgage servicer. For more information about applying, visit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’sForbearance programs were around before the pandemic, but Congress set up a special COVID-19 forbearance option given the scale of the crisis.
To qualify, you just need to declare you are “experiencing a financial hardship due, directly or indirectly, to the COVID-19 emergency,” but the law doesn’t provide a definition beyond that or specify the scale of the hardship you need to face. A layoff or furlough could qualify, as could large medical bills from catching COVID-19 or increased child-care costs with kids out of school, among other things.
Mortgage servicers cannot foreclose on borrowers who are in forbearance programs, but the foreclosure moratoriums also protect people who never enrolled in forbearance or who exited forbearance and then fell behind on payments.It’s possible. The Trump and Biden administrations have extended deadlines to enroll in forbearance and have lengthened foreclosure moratoriums as the pandemic continued.
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