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Disclosures Too Complex for Basic Adult Reader, GAO Study Asserts

September 25, 2006
The current disclosures for alternative or nontraditional mortgage products are too complicated and confusing for a person with a sixth-to-eighth grade education to understand, a recent Government Accountability Office study has found. The GAO study on the effectiveness of alternative-mortgage product disclosure, found that today’s disclosures are written at the level of a person in the 9th to 12th grade, “with an average near the 11th grade,” the study concluded...
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