July 16, 2009
Posted: July 16th, 2009 01:48 PM ET
From CNNMoney Senior Writer Tami Luhby NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) – As complaints mount about President Obama's foreclosure prevention program, the administration is ratcheting up the pressure on mortgage servicers. Financial executives will meet with Treasury and Housing officials on July 28 to discuss how the loan modification and refinancing plan has been implemented. The administration plans to grill servicers that have done few modifications or have had many complaints. Officials also want financial institutions to hire more people and train them better, expand their call centers, and send more mailings to eligible borrowers, according to a letter sent to servicers last week. The government also said servicers need to establish a way for borrowers to contest their treatment or denial. "There is a general need for servicers to devote substantially more resources to this program for it to fully succeed and achieve the objectives we all share," according to the letter, signed by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan. "We are asking all servicers expand their servicing capacity and improve the execution quality of loan modifications." Filed under: CNNMoney.com President Obama
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