Federal Credit Programs
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Budgetary Estimates for the Single-Family Mortgage Guarantee Program of the Federal Housing Administration
September 23, 2014Loan guarantees made in the FHA’s single-family mortgage program between 1992 and 2013 are now projected to generate small costs over their lifetimes rather than the significant savings that were originally recorded in the federal budget.
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Testimony on Estimates of the Cost of the Credit Programs of the Export-Import Bank
June 25, 2014CBO finds that Ex-Im Bank’s credit programs would generate a budgetary cost using fair-value accounting—as opposed to savings under the current approach for measuring costs—because it more fully accounts for risk the government takes on.
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Fair-Value Estimates of the Cost of Selected Federal Credit Programs for 2015 to 2024
May 22, 2014The budgetary costs shown for selected credit programs would be higher under fair-value accounting—an alternative to the current approach for measuring costs—because it more fully accounts for the cost of the risk the government takes on.
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Options to Change Interest Rates and Other Terms on Student Loans
June 10, 2013The interest rate for subsidized student loans is currently scheduled to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1, 2013. What would be the budgetary impact of changing interest rates for student loans?
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Fair-Value Accounting for Federal Credit Programs
March 5, 2012CBO examines fair-value accounting as an alternative to the current approach for measuring the costs to the government of federal credit programs.