Servicer Performance in Processing of HAMP Loan Modifications: A Survey of Massachusetts-Based Counseling Agencies
The Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP) attempts to help homeowners avoid foreclosure by compensating servicers that allow borrowers to modify the terms of their mortgages. To understand the seemingly troubled HAMP process, the Community Development unit of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank of Boston administered surveys to loan-modification counselors. The results indicate that the process takes much longer than the guidelines indicate and that servicers frequently claim the applications are incomplete. The surveys were run twice to assess any improvements.
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Prabal Chakrabarti,
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Email: Prabal.Chakrabarti@bos.frb.org
Ana Patricia Muñoz
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