12 USC § 5220a - Application of GSE conforming loan limit to mortgages assisted with TARP funds

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title: "12 USC § 5220a - Application of GSE conforming loan limit to mortgages assisted with TARP funds"
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title_name: "BANKS AND BANKING"
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section_name: "Application of GSE conforming loan limit to mortgages assisted with TARP funds"
chapter_number: 52
chapter_name: "EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION"
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subchapter_name: "TROUBLED ASSETS RELIEF PROGRAM"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 111–22, div. A, title II, § 205, May 20, 2009, 123 Stat. 1654.)"
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# § 5220a. Application of GSE conforming loan limit to mortgages assisted with TARP funds

12 U.S.C. 5211

In making any assistance available to prevent and mitigate foreclosures on residential properties, including any assistance for mortgage modifications, using any amounts made available to the Secretary of the Treasury under title I of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 [ et seq.], the Secretary shall provide that the limitation on the maximum original principal obligation of a mortgage that may be modified, refinanced, made, guaranteed, insured, or otherwise assisted, using such amounts shall not be less than the dollar amount limitation on the maximum original principal obligation of a mortgage that may be purchased by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation that is in effect, at the time that the mortgage is modified, refinanced, made, guaranteed, insured, or otherwise assisted using such amounts, for the area in which the property involved in the transaction is located.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 111–22, div. A, title II, § 205, May 20, 2009, 123 Stat. 1654.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, referred to in text, is div. A of , , . Title I of the Act is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under  and Tables.

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009, and not as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 which comprises this chapter.