If you are a homeowner experiencing financial hardship directly or indirectly related to Coronavirus (COVID-19) and your mortgage is owned by Freddie Mac, contact your loan servicer (the company listed on your mortgage statement) right away to discuss your options.
Whether you're facing job loss, reduced income, illness or other issues that impact your ability to make your monthly mortgage payment, Freddie Mac is working to ensure you are protected. In fact, the company has directed your loan servicer to provide mortgage relief options that include:
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- Find out if Freddie Mac owns your mortgage
- Learn more about how housing counselors can help you
- Review information from the CDC to keep you and your family safe
- Ensuring payment relief by providing forbearance for up to 12 months
- Waiving assessments of penalties or late fees
- Halting all foreclosure sales and evictions of borrowers living in homes owned by the company until at least May 17, 2020
- Suspending credit bureau reporting of the past due payments of borrowers who are in a forbearance plan as a result of hardships attributable to this national emergency
- Offering loan modification options to provide mortgage payment relief or keep those payments the same after the forbearance period
Borrowers are eligible for forbearance regardless of whether their property is owner occupied, a second home or an investment property.
If you are struggling to make your mortgage payments or believe you may fall behind on your payments soon, don't wait – contact your loan servicer now. They're here to help you.
