Tag Archives: Report: ‘Alarming’ Rate of Re-Defaulters With HAMP

A new report finds that borrowers who had their mortgage payments reduced as part of the Home Affordable Modification Program are still failing at an “alarming rate” to stay current on their mortgage. The borrowers had their mortgage payments reduced, on average, by more than $400 a month. For example, 46 percent of a few thousand permanent HAMP modifications issued in 2009 during the third quarter have re-defaulted. Nearly 40 percent of those made in the fourth quarter of 2009 also have re-defaulted, according to the report from the Troubled […]