BANKS SETTLE WITH GOVERNMENT OVER FORECLOSURE ABUSES

BANKS SETTLE WITH GOVERNMENT OVER FORECLOSURE ABUSES

Ally Financial, Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo agreed to pay a total of $5 billion in cash to try to remedy the fiasco caused by dubious mortgage practices and foreclosure abuses. They will also help homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages by reducing the principal on their loans by a combined $17 billion over the next three years. Borrowers who qualify will get a total of $3 billion in refinancing arrangements. Those who were improperly foreclosed on will get a combined $1.5 billion. That probably nets out to less than $2,000.00 a person.