Department of Veterans Affairs

Ginnie Mae considering changes to VA loan rules as refinances continue to soar 

For more than 18 months, HUD, Ginnie Mae, and the VA have been investigating whether certain lenders are aggressively targeting service members and military veterans for quick and potentially risky refinances of their mortgages. Ginnie Mae even went so far as to issue new rules for VA loan refinances, restricting how soon a loan could be refinanced after its original origination date. And while Ginnie Mae says that those changes have made a positive impact, the agency is also now stating that more changes may be necessary to get the pervasiveness of VA loan refinances under control.