The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (all federally supervised financial institutions)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- supervisory authority; CARES Act § 4013 (temporary relief from troubled debt restructuring accounting)
- Issued
- 2020-04-07 Apr. 7, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-07 (original Mar. 22, 2020) (read as 2020-04-07)
- End
- CARES Act § 4013 relief ran to the earlier of Jan. 1, 2022 or 60 days after the end of the national emergency (as extended by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021) (read as 2022-01-01)
- In force
- Apr. 7, 2020 to Jan. 1, 2022
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- banks, savings associations, credit unions and their examiners
- Functions reached
- SV servicing, modifications and collections
- BL business lending
- CL consumer and auto lending
- Collection
- Federal commerce, travel, workplace and finance layer FED-B
Operative words
The agencies originally issued a statement on March 22, 2020, to encourage financial institutions [to work prudently with borrowers who are or may be unable to meet their contractual payment obligations because of the effects of COVID-19]... [this] revised interagency statement clarifies the interaction between the March 22, 2020, interagency [statement and section 4013 of the CARES Act]... [regarding] accounting principles (GAAP) related to troubled debt restructurings (TDR) for a limited period...
Enforcement
supervisory expectation; CARES Act § 4013 accounting relief
Notes
The regulators' direction to every supervised lender to modify loans for COVID-19-affected borrowers; the framework under which lenders operated in all six quarters.
Retrieval noteSupervisory statement, not an order; pleaded as the regulators' own directive to lenders.