For those who follow the progress of the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, it is possible to use unemployment insurance payments to qualify for a loan modification. Good Idea? It will certainly allow some borrowers to complete a modification and perhaps to keep up with that modification until those unemployment payments run [...]

From Business Insider:
Mortgage expert and one-time Fannie Mae Chief Credit Officer Edward Pinto blasts the claim that 500,000 homeowners have entered into HAMP (Home Affordable Modification Program).
Based on comments being made by industry participants and program results to date, HAMP is rapidly becoming: I will pretend to modify your loan if you pretend that you [...]

From the FTC:
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz, joined by California Attorney General Jerry Brown, today announced Operation Loan Lies, a coordinated national law enforcement effort to crack down on mortgage modification scams. The operation involves 189 actions by 25 federal and state agencies against defendants who deceptively marketed foreclosure rescue and mortgage modification services. [...]

From the A.P.
South Carolina’s highest court on Tuesday temporarily stopped thousands of pending foreclosure sales in the state to give homeowners more time to take advantage of a new federal program to help them refinance mortgages.
The injunction — which mortgage experts said appeared to be the nation’s first court-ordered stop for an entire state — [...]