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How to get help if you can't pay your mortgage

What to do if you can't afford to pay your mortgage right now

04/30/2020

PBS News Hour

How to get help if you can't pay your mortgage

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What to do if you can't afford to pay your mortgage right now

With more than 30 million Americans losing jobs or businesses and others forced to take pay cuts, making monthly rent and mortgage payments has become increasingly difficult. Viewers share their challenges, and John Yang talks to the National Consumer Law Center’s Diane Thompson, formerly of the Consumer Financial Protection bureau, about what regulators and lenders are doing to try to help.

04/30/2020

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