Get Valuable Information on Forbearance Options

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Forbearance is complicated. There isn’t a 'one size fits all' because the options depend on many factors. Those factors include:
▪ The type of loan
▪ The owner or investor requirements pertaining to your mortgage loan
▪ Your servicer
▪ The amount you must pay, and for how long payments are paused or reduced
There are key things to consider with each type of forbearance. You’ll want to pay close attention to how your servicer expects you to pay back any missed or reduced mortgage payments.

Here Are Some Forbearance Examples to Guide You

Forbearance is a process that can help if you’re struggling to pay your mortgage. Your servicer or lender arranges for you to temporarily pause mortgage payments or make smaller payments. You still owe the full amount, and you pay back the difference later.
Forbearance can help you deal with a financial hardship. For example, forbearance can be helpful if your home was damaged in a natural disaster, you had unexpected medical costs, or you lost your job. Forbearance does not erase or decrease the amount you owe on your mortgage. You have to repay any missed or reduced payments.

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What to Consider:

▪ You may owe a big bill that comes due all at once. For example, if your servicer allowed you not to pay your mortgage for six months, at the end of the forbearance period, you may owe all six of your missed mortgage payments in one month.
▪ Interest on the paused amounts will continue to accrue until you repay them

Mortgage Payment Reduction Option: For example, your servicer allows you to reduce your $1000 monthly mortgage payment by half for three months. After the three months are over, you have one year to pay back the amount of that reduction.

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What to Consider

▪ The amount of the reduction would be spread out over 12 months and added to your mortgage payment once the reduction period is over. This means your monthly mortgage will increase during that one-year period. Using the example above, you would pay $500 for three months and starting on the fourth month you would need to pay $1125.00 ($1,000 + $1500/12) each month for the next 12 months.
▪ Interest on any reduced amounts will continue to accrue until you repay them.
Paused Payment Option-Paid back at the End of Mortgage: Your servicer allows you to pause payments for one year, and that amount is repaid by either adding it to the end of your mortgage loan or by you taking out a separate loan.

▪ You can extend the term of your loan for some amount of time to pay back the paused payments or take out a separate loan.
▪ Extending your loan means the missed payments will be added on to the end of your loan. For example, if you were given a twelve-month period where you didn’t have to pay your mortgage, you’ll have twelve months of payments added on to the date when your loan was supposed to be paid off by.
▪ Extending with a separate loan means when your mortgage is due you’ll also have to pay off this separate loan. This is like a balloon payment, which is one large payment due at the end of your loan.
▪ Interest on the missed amounts will continue to accrue until you repay them.