CHICAGO -- You may be one of about 3.5 million Americans already in a forbearance on your mortgage, but what if you need an extension? Or what if you want to start paying again? "This is home, Villa ...

Mortgage forbearance allows you to pause your mortgage payments, usually for up to six months, during a period of financial hardship. If you’re unable to resume payments when forbearance ends, you may ...

The reason Donaldson and thousands of other vets were put in this position is that in October of 2022, the VA suddenly shut down a key part of its mortgage forbearance program — the part that enabled ...

After January’s fires destroyed 16,000 structures in Los Angeles County, hundreds of banks signed up for a state-run program designed to help homeowners who lost everything. Mortgage companies agreed ...

On September 22, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 238, which took immediate effect as an urgency statute. The new Mortgage Forbearance Act (the Act) can be found in section ...