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F-1-20: Remitting and Accounting to Fannie Mae (12/20/2023)

Introduction

This Servicing Guide Procedure contains the following:

 

Remitting a P&I Payment to Fannie Mae for a Summary Reporting Actual/Actual Mortgage Loan

The servicer must report its remittances for summary reporting actual/actual remittance type mortgage loans to Fannie Mae in the CRS in accordance with C-3-01, Responsibilities Related to Remitting P&I Funds to Fannie Mae.

The servicer must report its remittances to Fannie Mae via CRS

  • whenever the total amount collected is greater than $2,500 after the servicer deducts its servicing fees,

  • at least once a month if the total amount collected was less than $2,500 after the servicer deducts its servicing fees, and/or

  • on the first work day of each month if there were any collections on the last work day in the preceding month that were not remitted because they were received after the 4 p.m. ET deadline for electronically transmitting remittance transactions to Fannie Mae.

The following table outlines requirements if the servicer does not receive its collection activity reports in time to ensure that accumulated collections can be remitted to Fannie Mae in accordance with Fannie Mae’s required schedule.

The servicer must...
 

Make a reasonable estimate of the funds due.

 

Base its remittance transmission on that estimate.

The servicer must calculate its estimate by using either

  • its preceding remittance transmission amount, or

  • management reports that show its past average remittance for that particular day of the month.

When the actual collection report is available, the servicer must adjust its remittance by

  • immediately remitting any additional funds that are due, or

  • reducing its next remittance transmission by the overremitted amount.

Note: The detailed reporting actual/actual mortgage loans do not follow the same remittance guidelines as the summary reporting actual/actual remittances. For details, also see Remitting P&I Payments to Fannie Mae for Detailed Reporting, Actual/Actual Mortgage Loans.

 

Remitting a P&I Payment to Fannie Mae for a Detailed Reporting Actual/Actual Mortgage Loan

The following table provides instructions for detailed reporting for actual/actual mortgage loans in accordance with C-3-01, Responsibilities Related to Remitting P&I Funds to Fannie Mae.

The servicer must...
 

Report any activity daily, as received. Any activity reported automatically initiates a draft of the remittance amount from the servicer’s custodial account within 48 hours.

 

Report mortgage loan activity to Fannie Mae through Fannie Mae's investor reporting system as transactions occur. Transactions may include P&I payments, principal curtailments, payoffs, etc.

 

Remitting a P&I Payment to Fannie Mae for a Scheduled/Actual Mortgage Loan

The servicer must make all P&I payments due to Fannie Mae for scheduled/actual remittance type mortgage loans available for drafting on the 20th calendar day of each month (or the preceding business day if the 20th is not a business day), in accordance with C-3-01, Responsibilities Related to Remitting P&I Funds to Fannie Mae. Funds drafted will be based on all mortgage loan activity reported for the prior month.

Note: To assist the servicer in ensuring it will have sufficient funds in its drafting account, Fannie Mae will provide the electronic draft notice on its website by the third business day of each month.

 

Remitting a P&I Payment to Fannie Mae for a Scheduled/Scheduled Mortgage Loan

The servicer of a scheduled/scheduled mortgage loan must remit scheduled P&I to Fannie Mae in accordance with  C-3-01, Responsibilities Related to Remitting P&I Funds to Fannie Mae.

Remittance Requirements

The procedure for remitting required P&I payments for scheduled/scheduled remittance type mortgage loans differs based on the type of mortgage loan (portfolio or MBS). The following table provides remitting instructions for scheduled/scheduled remittance type mortgage loans.

Mortgage Loan Type The servicer must...

Portfolio mortgage loan

Make all funds due to Fannie Mae available for drafting by the 18th calendar day of the month (or the preceding business day if the 18th is not a business day).

Note: To assist the servicer in ensuring it will have sufficient funds in its drafting account, Fannie Mae will provide the electronic draft notice on its website by the third business day of each month.

MBS mortgage loan

Determine the date by which funds must be available for drafting by Fannie Mae based on which remittance cycle (and, in some instances, on which remittance date) the servicer selected when it created the MBS pool.

Note: To assist the servicer in ensuring it will have sufficient funds in its drafting account, Fannie Mae will provide the electronic draft notice on its website by the third business day of each month.

For MBS mortgage loans, the procedure differs based on the type of remittance cycle (standard, RPM, or MBS Express). The following table provides remittance requirements based on the remittance cycle specific to MBS mortgage loans.

Remittance Cycle Remittance Requirements
Standard

Funds must be available for drafting on the 18th calendar day of the month (or the preceding business day if the 18th is not a business day).

  • For pools that have a sixth day of the month designated remittance date, the funds must be available for drafting on the fifth day of the month.
  • For pools that have other designated remittance dates, the funds must be available for drafting on the designated remittance date (or the preceding business day if the designated remittance date is not a business day).
RPM Funds must be available for drafting on the designated remittance date.
MBS Express

Funds must be available for drafting on two different dates depending on the type of funds being remitted.

  • Remittances related to unscheduled principal (payoffs, curtailments, repurchases, and other removals) must be in the servicer’s designated draft account in time for Fannie Mae to draft them on the fourth business day of the month after they were collected.
  • Remittances related to scheduled P&I must be in the servicer’s designated draft account in time for Fannie Mae to draft them on the 18th calendar day of the month (or the preceding business day if the 18th is not a business day).

Stop Delinquency Advance Process

When a special servicing option portfolio or MBS mortgage loan with a scheduled/scheduled remittance type becomes four consecutive months delinquent, Fannie Mae will place it in the Stop Delinquency Advance process and suspend drafting delinquency advances from the servicer’s custodial account.  While the mortgage loan is in the Stop Delinquency Advance process, the servicer must continue to:

  • report mortgage loan activity to Fannie Mae; and
  • advance guaranty fees and excess servicing fees, as applicable.

If the servicer collects one or more full contractual payments while the mortgage loan remains in the Stop Delinquency Advance process, Fannie Mae will draft these funds and first apply them to recover advances made by Fannie Mae on behalf of the servicer. Once Fannie Mae has recovered all its advances, the servicer may then retain subsequent contractual payments to recover delinquent P&I advances it has made.

Fannie Mae will remove a mortgage loan from the Stop Delinquency Advance process under certain events, including those set forth in the following table.  The table also summarizes additional servicer responsibilities, and the actions Fannie Mae will take, depending on how the mortgage loan exits the process. 

If...

Then...

The mortgage loan is removed from the trust and reclassified as an actual/actual remittance type mortgage loan (including for a pending mortgage loan modification)

  • The servicer is no longer required to advance P&I.
  • Fannie Mae will reimburse the servicer for any outstanding delinquency advances.

The mortgage loan becomes current (including when the borrower completes an applicable home retention workout option)

  • The servicer must resume remitting scheduled P&I to Fannie Mae.
  • Fannie Mae will draft P&I from the servicer’s custodial account each month, beginning with the applicable draft date for P&I due for the month in which the mortgage loan became current.
  • If the mortgage loan was brought current through a completed payment deferral (or when a mortgage loan modification is completed for a portfolio mortgage loan or a PFP mortgage loan that remains a scheduled/scheduled remittance type after removal from the MBS pool), Fannie Mae will reimburse the servicer for any delinquency advances up to that point.

The mortgage loan is paid off or repurchased

Fannie Mae will draft the servicer’s custodial account for any outstanding P&I.

The mortgage loan is liquidated (such as through foreclosure, short sale, or Mortgage Release)

Fannie Mae will reimburse the servicer for any outstanding delinquency advances.

 

Remitting through the CRS

The CRS relies on remittance codes, which are unique to specific transactions, to identify monies related to the individual remittances the servicer reports. (See Fannie Mae's  CRS User Guide for a list of these codes.) Each remittance type code must be linked to a single drafting account. This account can be either the P&I custodial account for the applicable remittance type or a consolidated account the servicer uses for MBS P&I or for all other remittance types.

In the CRS, the servicer must provide bank instructions to Fannie Mae by 8 p.m. ET, one day prior to the effective date and remit the draft amount at any time up until Fannie Mae’s cut-off time at 4 p.m. ET. The servicer is authorized to change the information for individual drafts at any time prior to its transmission of the information to Fannie Mae. After bank instructions and remittance amount are provided to Fannie Mae, Fannie Mae will then draft the servicer’s designated account using the ACH system.

The following table summarizes the reporting requirements the servicer must use when remitting funds in CRS for mortgage loans with an actual/actual remittance type, in accordance with C-3-01, Responsibilities Related to Remitting P&I Funds to Fannie Mae.

If the servicer must report via... Then the servicer must report remittances...
Summary reporting When collections are enough to require the funds to be remitted to Fannie Mae. Fannie Mae will draft the related funds from the servicer’s designated drafting account on the following business day.
Detailed reporting Daily, as received. This initiates a draft of the remittance amount from the servicer’s custodial account on the next business day after loan activity is reported.

Note: For additional information on compensatory fees that may be assessed for late remittances, also see  A1-4.2-01, Compensatory Fees Other Than Delays in the Liquidation Process.

 

Remitting a Special Remittance

The servicer must report special remittances for all mortgage loans it services to Fannie Mae via CRS, in accordance with C-3-01, Responsibilities Related to Remitting P&I Funds to Fannie Mae.

There are several remittance type codes the servicer can use for reporting special remittances to Fannie Mae. (See  CRS User Guide for a list of remittance type codes). Each special remittance must have a corresponding Fannie Mae loan number entered in CRS.

Each remittance type code must be linked to a single bank account. See  F-1-03, Establishing and Implementing Custodial Accounts for additional information on establishing bank account instructions.

 

Remitting Short Sale Proceeds

For portfolio mortgage loans, PFP mortgage loans, and special servicing option MBS mortgage loans, the servicer must remit short sale proceeds to Fannie Mae in accordance with C-1.2-02, Processing Short Sale Proceeds, by taking the actions described in the following table.

The servicer must...
 

Remit the short sale proceeds via CRS as a special remittance using special remittance code 357.

Note: Do NOT submit as code 001.

 

Remit any borrower cash contributions associated with the short sale using special remittance code 324.

 

Remit the short sale proceeds to Fannie Mae within two business days of the servicer’s receipt of the net sale proceeds, but no later than three business days after the short sale.

 

Include the Fannie Mae loan number where indicated.

 

Contact its assigned Fannie Mae Investor Reporting Representative (see F-4-02, List of Contacts) with any questions related to remitting short sale proceeds.

For regular servicing option MBS mortgage loans, shared-risk special servicing option MBS mortgage loans, regular servicing option RD mortgage loans, or any mortgage loans subject to some type of recourse or other credit enhancement arrangement, the servicer must remit the short sale proceeds just as it would remit a full payoff of any other regular servicing option MBS mortgage loan since the servicer must absorb any losses and expenses related to the short sale.

Also see Reporting a Liquidation to Fannie Mae in the Investor Reporting Manual for instructions on how to remove the mortgage loan from Fannie Mae’s active accounting records.

 

Remitting MBS Guaranty Fees and Charges

Fannie Mae initiates drafts for guaranty fees, guaranty fee buydown charges, and deposits for guaranty fee buyup charges, in accordance with C-3-01, Responsibilities Related to Remitting P&I Funds to Fannie Mae.

Remittance Requirements

The following table lists the steps the servicer must follow to enable successful drafts/deposits for guaranty fees and buydown/buyup charges.

Step Servicer Action
1

Designate a custodial bank account from which Fannie Mae will process the fees. See F-1-03, Establishing and Implementing Custodial Accounts for detailed requirements.

2

Retrieve the electronic draft notice (or “bill”) from Fannie Mae’s website. This notice shows the amount due for guaranty fees, any guaranty fee buydown charges, any adjustment to offset any guaranty fee buyup payment that Fannie Mae owes the servicer, and the total net amount due Fannie Mae.

3

Review the draft notice for accuracy. If the net of the fees and charges the servicer calculates does not agree with the amount shown on the draft notice, the servicer must contact its Fannie Mae Investor Reporting Representative (see F-4-02, List of Contacts) immediately to provide details on the amount and nature of the discrepancy. Fannie Mae will review its records to validate the discrepancy the servicer identified and make any necessary adjustments to the bill.

4

Remit the fees and charges to the designated custodial account so they are available to Fannie Mae on the seventh calendar day of the month, or on the preceding business day if the seventh is not a business day.

Guaranty Fee Relief Process

When a scheduled/scheduled remittance type MBS mortgage loan becomes four consecutive months delinquent, Fannie Mae will place the mortgage loan in the Guaranty Fee Relief process and suspend drafting guaranty fees from the servicer’s custodial account. While the mortgage loan is in the Guaranty Fee Relief process, the servicer must continue to report mortgage loan activity to Fannie Mae.

If the servicer collects one or more full contractual payments while the mortgage loan is in the Guaranty Fee Relief process, Fannie Mae will draft the guaranty fee amount associated with the contractual payment.  Fannie Mae will first apply such funds to recover the outstanding guaranty fees due to Fannie Mae. Once Fannie Mae has recovered all its outstanding guaranty fees, the servicer may then retain subsequent guaranty fee amounts to recover delinquent guaranty fee advances it has made.

Fannie Mae will remove a mortgage loan from the Guaranty Fee Relief process under certain events, including those set forth in the following table.  The table also summarizes additional servicer responsibilities, and the actions Fannie Mae will take, depending on how the mortgage loan exits the process.

If...

Then...

The mortgage loan is removed from the trust and reclassified as an actual/actual remittance type mortgage loan (including for a pending mortgage loan modification)

The servicer is no longer responsible for remitting guaranty fees to Fannie Mae.

The mortgage loan becomes current (including when the borrower completes an applicable home retention workout option)

  • The servicer must resume remitting guaranty fees to Fannie Mae.
  • Fannie Mae will draft the guaranty fee from the servicer’s designated custodial account each month, beginning with the applicable draft date for the guaranty fee due for the month in which the mortgage loan became current.

Note: See Reimbursement for Expenses Associated with Workout Options in  F-1-05, Expense Reimbursement for when Fannie Mae will reimburse guaranty fees for a mortgage loan with a completed payment deferral.

The mortgage loan is paid off or repurchased

The servicer is no longer responsible for remitting guaranty fees to Fannie Mae.

The mortgage loan is liquidated (such as through foreclosure, short sale, or Mortgage Release)

The servicer is no longer responsible for remitting guaranty fees to Fannie Mae.

 

Remitting Other Fees and Charges

All other fees and charges due Fannie Mae, such as upfront commitment fees or pair-off or extension fees, must all be deposited into a single custodial account that has been designated as the draft account and entered into the CRS. The servicer must deposit the funds for the applicable fees or charges to be remitted prior to the date on which Fannie Mae will draft the funds. The following table provides additional information regarding when Fannie Mae will draft certain other fees, in accordance with C-3-01, Responsibilities Related to Remitting P&I Funds to Fannie Mae.

Type of Fee Fannie Mae will draft the account...

Upfront commitment fees related to negotiated case commitments

The day following the request for the contract, without providing any advance notification.

Fees related to pair-offs, or extensions of cash commitments or contracts that are request by a seller/servicer

The business day following the seller/servicer’s request for the pair-off or extension.

Fannie Mae will draft the account on the business day following the extended expiration date or following the expiration of the additional time period it allows for processing pending purchases before an automatic pair-off takes place, if the fees relate to

  • an automatic five-day extension of a commitment or contract, or

  • an automatic pair-off of the remaining balance of an expired commitment or contract.

Fannie Mae will provide the seller/servicer with advance notification of its draft.

 

Remitting Payoff Proceeds

The following table provides the schedule and remittance requirements for remitting mortgage loan payoff proceeds to Fannie Mae, in accordance with  C-3-02, Remitting Payoff Proceeds.

Mortgage Loan Type Requirements for Remitting Payoff Proceeds

Actual/Actual Remittance Type Mortgage Loan

If the payoff proceeds are greater than $2,500, they must be remitted to Fannie Mae immediately. Otherwise, the servicer must remit the payoff proceeds under the servicer’s regular remittance schedule. The servicer must remit

  • the UPB;

  • the full amount of the interest due, up to but not including, the payoff date;

  • FHA servicer charges, if applicable; and

  • any prepayment premium, if applicable.

Note: The servicer may deduct its applicable servicing fees and any unapplied buydown funds Fannie Mae may be holding.

Scheduled/Actual Remittance Type Mortgage Loan

The servicer must remit the payoff proceeds to Fannie Mae as part of its regular monthly remittance, by the 20th day of the month following the month in which they were received, or any other negotiated remittance date.

The servicer must remit Fannie Mae’s share of

  • the UPB;

  • one-half of one month’s interest, calculated at the net certificate yield of the PTR for a whole mortgage loan; and

  • any prepayment premium, if Fannie Mae agreed that such a premium could be collected and requires it to be remitted to Fannie Mae.

Scheduled/Scheduled Remittance Type Mortgage Loan

The servicer must remit the payoff proceeds as part of its regular monthly remittance

  • on the standard remittance day of the 18th calendar day of the month following the month in which they were received;

  • by the early remittance day the servicer specified under the RPM for MBS remittances; or

  • by the 4th business day of the month, if the loan is in an MBS Express pool.

The remittance amount to Fannie Mae will vary by mortgage loan type as follows:

  • Portfolio mortgage loans:

    • scheduled UPB of the mortgage loan, and

    • a full month’s interest calculated at the PTR of the mortgage loan.

  • MBS mortgage loans:

    • a full month’s interest calculated at the pass-through rate of the mortgage loan unless the liquidation was process on the first business day and reported to Fannie Mae by the second business day, and

    • any prepayment premium, if Fannie Mae agreed that such a premium could be collected and requires it to be remitted to Fannie Mae.

Note: Because the servicer is required to remit a full month’s interest to Fannie Mae, the servicer must use its own funds to cover the difference between the interest Fannie Mae is due and the interest collected from the borrower when a mortgage loan is paid off before the end of the month.

For FHA Title I loans, the scheduled for remitting funds depends on the remittance type for the mortgage loan. The servicer must remit

  • the UPB, and

  • the full amount of interest due through the end of the payoff month.

    Note: The servicer may deduct its applicable servicing fee.

 

Remitting Third-Party Sales Proceeds to Fannie Mae

The servicer must remit all third-party sales proceeds to Fannie Mae regardless of whether or not the sale is finalized or falls through in accordance with E-3.5-02, Handling Third-Party Sales.

If the sale is finalized, the amount that must be remitted to Fannie Mae is:

  • the restricted resale price (as determined in accordance with the resale restriction agreement or shared equity transaction agreement, as applicable); or
  • the lesser of
    • the reserve price; or

    • the total mortgage indebtedness, including the UPB of the mortgage loan and interest (based on the applicable PTR) for the period from the due date of the LPI to the latter of the liquidation or settlement date.

However, if state law requires that the sheriff deduct fees from the sale proceeds, the servicer must remit the proceeds less such deductions to Fannie Mae along with an itemization of the deducted fees.

The servicer must submit a request for expense reimbursement for any reimbursable expenses.

The servicer must not submit any sales proceeds that remain after Fannie Mae has been paid the amount it is due—and after the servicer has been reimbursed for its expenses and advances—because these proceeds must be distributed as provided for under local statutory requirements.

Any premium refunds (minus the portion that may be required to reimburse Fannie Mae or the servicer for advances Fannie Mae made) must be disbursed as shown in the following table.

If the mortgage loan is... Then the payment must be made to the...

FHA

third-party purchaser

Conventional, VA, or RD

borrower

For a VA mortgage loan, the servicer must file a claim under the guaranty if the third party’s bid was more than VA’s “upset price,” but less than the total indebtedness. The servicer also may file a claim under FHA’s claim without conveyance procedure for an FHA mortgage loan that was endorsed for insurance on or after November 30, 1983. For additional information, see Section E0–4.5, Filing MI Claims for Liquidated Properties.

 

Remitting a Settlement Received for a Mortgage Loan

The servicer must remit any claim or sales proceeds it receives to Fannie Mae, by adhering to the instructions shown in the following table.

The servicer must...
 

Immediately deposit the funds into its P&I custodial account.

 

Report the receipt of funds in its accounting reports for the current month.

 

Remit funds to Fannie Mae on the remittance date in the month following their receipt.

 

 

Determining the Payoff Date for a Scheduled/Scheduled Mortgage Loan

The following table outlines how the servicer must determine the payoff date.

If... Then...

a scheduled/scheduled remittance type mortgage loan payoff is handled by a settlement attorney or closing agent

the servicer can consider the mortgage loan as being paid off on the settlement (or closing) date, even if it does not receive the funds for several days.

a mortgage loan payoff comes directly from the borrower

the servicer can consider the mortgage loan paid off on the day the servicer receives the funds.

 

Recent Related Announcements

The table below provides references to recently issued Announcements that are related to this topic.

Announcements Issue Date
Announcement SVC-2023-06 December 20, 2023
Announcement SVC-2023-04 July 12, 2023
Announcement SVC-2023-03 May 10, 2023
Announcement SVC-2022-05 July 13, 2022
Announcement SVC-2022-03 May 11, 2022
Announcement SVC-2021-07 October 13, 2021
Announcement SVC-2020-03 July 15, 2020

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