LOGAN — The Utah Homeowner’s Assistance Fund is a state-mandated program to provide help for residents in Utah.
It is administered locally by the Bear River Association of Governments (BRAG). On KVNU’s For the People program on Monday, Deanna Newbold of BRAG explained how it works.
“The Utah Homeowner’s Assistance Fund is a program for housing assistance for homeowners in Utah that have been impacted by the COVID pandemic. The funding can be used for quite a few different things. It can be used to pay past due mortgage payments, past due manufactured home loan debt or past due monthly lot rents, it can pay property taxes or insurance premiums that are past due,” Newbold explained.
She said the program originally opened last October for a short period of time.
“They have open application periods and it closed at the beginning of November. At that time, when it closes they review all the applications they have received, and then they open up, if there’s funding available, they’ll open up an application period again. We’ve had two open application periods so far, the last one closed on January 13th.”
Newbold said she anticipates that they will be opening another application period in two to three weeks.
Those wanting more information can visit [email protected] or call Deanna at BRAG weekdays until 2:30 p.m. at (435) 713-1436.