A group of U.S. senators is asking the Department of Veterans Affairs to put an immediate stop to foreclosures on the homes of veterans and service members.

The senators cited an investigation by NPR that found thousands of veterans who took what’s called a COVID forbearance – a program that allowed them to defer paying their mortgages and keep their homes during the pandemic – are now at risk of losing their homes through no fault of their own.

“Without this pause, thousands of veterans and servicemembers could needlessly lose their homes,” Sens. Sherrod Brown, Jon Tester, Jack Reed, and Tim Kaine, all Democrats, wrote in a letter to VA Secretary Denis McDonough. “This was never the intent of Congress.”

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