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The HOPE NOW Alliance is an industry-led effort to provide at-risk homeowners with in-depth debt management, credit counseling and overall foreclosure counseling. HOPE NOW has held face-to-face events throughout the country, designed to bring mortgage servicers and nonprofit housing counselors together to assist homeowners in avoiding foreclosure. Many of the families that attend these Homeownership Preservation Workshops receive decisions on-site or initiate the workout process. All who attend leave with a clearer picture of their mortgage situation.
"I was three months past due when I showed up here today. I worked with Chase and received a HAMP loan modification that is saving me more than $1,000 per month. I changed jobs and suffered some income loss, but luckily I was able to work out my mortgage by attending today's event -- and it took me less than an hour. The bottom line is, if you get a letter from your lender asking you to attend one of these events, don't take it for granted. It's not a scam, and the folks here are trying very hard to work with people like myself who just want to stay in their home."
-- Kevin -- Chandler, Ariz. -- Attended 3/10 Glendale Event
These are the faces of recovery, and we invite you to hear their stories here.
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The Census Bureau uses a workforce of trained federal employees to conduct a variety of household and business surveys by telephone, in-person interviews, through the mail, and in limited cases through the Internet. Your personal information is sensitive, and the U.S. Census Bureau goes to great lengths to protect the data they collect. Although they cannot stop or warn against all bogus or false collections of data -- here are some tips to help you recognize fraudulent activity or unofficial data collections. If you are contacted for any of the following reasons -- Do Not Participate. It is NOT the U.S. Census Bureau.
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As economists, elected officials and the American public ponder how to strengthen the U.S. economy by rebalancing the nation’s spending and consumption with savings and investment, an alarming majority of U.S. teens say they lack the knowledge to understand and effectively reconcile the two, according to the eleventh annual “Teens and Personal Finance Survey” conducted by Junior Achievement (JA) and The Allstate Foundation.
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