---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 1701w"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "1701w"
heading: "Budget, debt management, and related counseling services for mortgagors; authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/1701w"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — National Housing"
---

# §1701w. Budget, debt management, and related counseling services for mortgagors; authorization of appropriations


The [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) of Housing and Urban Development is authorized to provide, or contract with public or private organizations to provide, such budget, debt management, and related counseling services to [mortgagors](/usc/12/1707.md?p=b) whose [mortgages](/usc/12/1707.md?p=a) are insured under [section 1715z(i)](/usc/12/1715z.md?p=i) or (j)(4) of this title as he determines to be necessary to assist such [mortgagors](/usc/12/1707.md?p=b) in meeting the responsibilities of homeownership. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–448, title I, § 101(e), Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 484.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and not as part of the National Housing Act which comprises this chapter.