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# [Online Bankers Training - RESPA Section 8](https://blog.bankerscompliance.com/en/respa-section-8)

 Written by [David Dickinson](https://blog.bankerscompliance.com/en/author/david-dickinson) | Jul 18, 2011 9:43:10 AM

If you’ve ever heard me train on RESPA, I always mention Section 8 and warn lenders not to play games with this deadly snake.  HUD takes kickbacks & referral fees very seriously, as evidenced by two recent settlements:

Fidelity National Financial – a title company  – paid a $4.5 million fine on July 11, 2011, for illegally paying kickbacks to brokers for the referral of home loan services.

Two days later, HUD fined Prospect Mortgage, LLC – a California based mortgage lender – $3.1 million for paying improper kickbacks or referral fees to affiliates.

At the end of each press releases is the following statement:

*RESPA was enacted in 1974 to provide consumers advance disclosures of settlement charges and to prohibit illegal kickbacks and excessive fees in the homebuying process. Section 8(a) of RESPA prohibits a person from giving or accepting anything of value in exchange for the referral of settlement service business and Section 8(b) prohibits unearned fees.*

Don’t play games with Section 8 of RESPA.  The consequences are too great!

Published  
 2011/07/18  
 David Dickinson

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