Homeowners can apply for mortgage relief program

Michelle Warren, The Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn.
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Oct. 3—W I L L I M A N T I C / DANIELSON — Homeowners in Tolland and Windham Counties who are experiencing hardship caused by the pandemic can apply for mortgage relief through a new federal program, "My Home CT."

Access Community Action Agency is helping residents in the two counties apply for the program.

$123 million was awarded to the Homeowner Assistance Fund.

The Connecticut program, " MyHomeCT," is administered by the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority.

Homeowners can apply for up to $50,000 in grant expenses.

Expenses that are covered include: payment assistance for mortgage delinquencies and future payments; non- escrowed real estate taxes; non- escrowed homeowners' insurance and flood insurance; water and sewer liens; ground lease or lot payments; fees advanced by the loan servicer/ lender on behalf of an applicant with a reverse mortgage and condominium and/ or homeowners' association fees or special assessments.

An applicant must live in Connecticut and occupy the property as their primary residence. To be eligible, applicants must also have experienced a COVID-19related financial hardship after Jan. 21, 2020 or a financial hardship before that date that was exacerbated by the pandemic.

The property must be an owner- occupied, one to four- unit house, condominium, townhouse or manufactured home.

Those who are interested in applying to or learning more about MyHomeCT can visit the access webpage, accessagency. org/ homelessness- prevention- services/.

More information is also available by contacting Dale Richardson at Access by calling 860412-1600 ext. 1625 or by emailing him at dalerichardson@ accessagency. org. Richardson works in the Danielson office, which is on 231 Broad St.

Those with questions can also contact Sashary Rios by calling 860- 450- 7400, ext. 7486 or e- mailing her at sarshary. rios@ accessagency. org. Rios works at the Willimantic office on 1315 Main St. Homeowners can also visit chfa. org/ MyHomeCT to learn more and complete a short online questionnaire to see if they may be eligible.

Access is following all standard and state-mandated precautions, including social distancing and mask requirements.

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