forebearance

Example Sentences

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If you owe $50k, you get a forebearance for all of it, and you're in a 25% Tax bracket, you're on the hook for $12,500 in taxes to the IRS.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2017

The article should discuss the serious tax consequences of forebearance.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2017

“The amount of sweeping forebearance they did today is unprecedented.”

From Forbes • Feb. 26, 2015

The bank revealed it has 7,383 customers in its "forebearance portfolios" - 5.8 per cent of its mortgages, by value.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2011

They exist more frequently in the middleclass than among the poor, whose common dependence teaches them forebearance if not pity, but they exist also among the poor, more terrible if not more merciless.

From Women of the Country by Bone, Gertrude