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The Nation's #1 Independent Veterans Web Site Click here to make VA Watchdog dot Org your homepage VA NEWS FLASH from Larry Scott at VA Watchdog dot Org -- 05-02-2008 #9 |
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THEIR HOMES -- Senate Vets' Chair: "In light of today's housing and home loan crises, the further refinancing options in this bill will help more veterans make ends meet and escape foreclosures."
For more about Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI), Chairman
of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, use the VA Watchdog search
engine...click here... Akaka press release here... Press release below:
------------------------- AKAKA INTRODUCES BILL TO HELP VETERANS REFINANCE HOMES Legislation would significantly increase the refinancing guaranty for veterans, cut equity requirement in half
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI), Chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, introduced legislation to improve veterans' ability to refinance their mortgages. "In light of today's housing and home loan crises, the further refinancing options in this bill will help more veterans make ends meet and escape foreclosures," said Akaka. The current maximum VA guaranty for all loans
in excess of $144,000, except regular refinance loans, is equal to 25
percent of the Freddie Mac conforming loan limit for a single family
home, adjusted for the year involved. Presently this is $104,250
($156,375 for Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands). This means
lenders making loans covered by a VA guaranty up to $417,000 ($625,500
in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands) will receive at least
a 25 percent guaranty.
However, only $36,000 of a VA home loan guaranty can be used when the loan is being used to refinance a home loan, meaning that VA will not provide backing for a refinance loan in excess of $144,000. Additionally, present law limits regular refinance loans to 90 percent of the reasonable value of the dwelling, meaning that veterans without at least 10 percent equity cannot refinance their existing loan into a VA guaranteed home loan. Chairman Akaka's bill would address these two issues as follows:
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