More than 22K Arizonans receive mortgage aid in settlement

More than 22,000 Arizona consumers received some sort of aid during the first year of the nation’s biggest settlement with mortgage firms.

The U.S.’s five biggest lenders have provided $1.68 billion in relief to mortgage borrowers across the state, according to a progress report released Thursday by independent settlement monitor Joseph Smith of the Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight.

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