SUBJECTS
With this Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide (“Guide”) Bulletin, we are making the following updates to
our Servicing requirements:
State Housing Finance Agencies (“HFAs”) mortgage assistance programs
■ Providing requirements for Servicer participation in transition assistance programs offered by HFAs
and funded by Treasury’s Innovation Fund for the Hardest Hit Housing Markets or Hardest Hit Fund
(“HHF”)
■ Consolidating all requirements related to Servicer participation in HFA mortgage assistance
programs into new Guide Section 64.12, Hardest Hit Fund
Freddie Mac Standard Modification interest rate
■ Requiring Servicers to refer to our web site at:
http://www.freddiemac.com/singlefamily/service/standardmodrate.html for the interest rate that
Servicers must use to calculate the terms of the Trial Period Plan and the modification
■ Adjusting the interest rate required to calculate the terms of the Trial Period Plan and the
modification
HAMP and HAFA initiative
■ Extending our Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) and Home Affordable Foreclosure
Alternatives (HAFA) initiative through December 31, 2013
■ Revising our HAMP eligibility requirements for a permanent modification to exclude Mortgages
subject to full recourse or indemnification agreements
Additional Guide updates
In addition, we are:
■ Correcting an e-mail address in Directory 5
■ Revising Guide Form 105, Multipurpose Loan Servicing Transmittal, to make the form fillable
EFFECTIVE DATE
All of the changes announced in this Bulletin are effective immediately, unless otherwise noted.
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