6.7 C
New York
Friday, March 29, 2024

Federal Agency Issues Warning on Reverse Mortgages

Courtesy of Pam Martens.

Impact of Compounding Debt Interest and Fees on a Reverse Mortgage

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: August 30, 2017

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal agency created after the 2008 financial crash to protect consumers from predator banks, has issued a warning on what smells like the latest financial blood sport: bank employees selling reverse mortgages to seniors under the guise that it will allow them to reap a larger Social Security benefit down the road by delaying Social Security payments to a later age.

Reading through the CFPB report that accompanied the warning, it reminded us of how the tobacco industry had secretly targeted young people as “replacement smokers” while intentionally hiding the deadly effects of smoking from the public.

The CFPB report advises that “nearly five million homeowners will turn age 62 by 2020.” That’s the earliest age at which one can collect Social Security retirement benefits as well as the earliest age to apply for a reverse mortgage. That creates a big pool of potential new customers to whom banks can peddle reverse mortgages.

The problems with this marketing strategy are multiple explains the report:

Continue Here

Subscribe
Notify of
0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

Stay Connected

157,450FansLike
396,312FollowersFollow
2,280SubscribersSubscribe

Latest Articles

0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x