Friday, June 12, 2015

Tips To Easily Secure Disabled Veterans Loans

By April Briggs


Veterans have easier terms of credit that make their loans more affordable. Taking advantage of disabled veterans loans exemptions and benefits will reduce your repayment amount or increase the loan you get. In some cases, your level of disability will enable you access more cash or reduce the fees you pay on your loan.

A person receiving disability benefits and has not closed his veteran loan is exempted from paying funding fees. The waiver means that your loan is easier to access. Any veteran who has already closed the loan and is now receiving benefits is eligible for refund. The refund is processed by the VA regional Loan Center. The amount is significant and will lift a heavy burden off your shoulders.

The claims for refund can be made at any time as long as you are receiving benefits. The claims are processed on your behalf as long as you provide necessary documents. With a home loan of two hundred thousand dollars, you are eligible to 2.15 percent which translates to about four thousand and three hundred dollars. This is an amount that can transform your life significantly.

Specially adapted housing grants are the other option worth exploring. They are aimed at making modifications to ensure that the house is easier to use based on the disability of the veteran. Some of the things you can do with the grant include constructing a house with the necessary modifications, remodeling the house to fit your current condition and applying for the grant against a balance of an existing loan for a modified house.

Special Housing Adaptation is a grant targeting adaptations to a house owned or to be owned by the veteran. It is used to modify the premises so that the veteran finds it easier to live there. It may be used to construct the house for the disabled veteran. The other option is to buy a house that has already been modified.

There is a limit to Special Adaptation Housing and Special Housing Adaptation. SAH has a limit of 64,960 dollars while SHA has an upper annual limit of 12, 992. Any veteran who seeks to take advantage of these grants must be receiving disability benefits. With the exemption being annual, the amount is significant.

A veteran with disability stands to enjoy other credit and tax exemptions that have a significant effect on the principle amount and the fees paid on the loan. The exemption depends on individual states. For instance some counties require total disability for one to qualify while others provide exemptions to any veteran. Only a house modified or purchased under SAH or SHA grant qualifies for exemption.

The Mortgage Credit Certificate helps you in claiming credit for part of the interest paid on the mortgage each year. Each state has different criteria for issuing the certificate. The fact that you are receiving disability payments boosts your chances of securing VA loan because the benefits count as income. The benefits meet the minimum requirements for a VA loan which are reliability, continuous and stable.




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