MADISON, Wis. - Six months after it was first announced by CUNA as an initiative to help lower-income homebuyers afford their first home, the Home Loan Payment Relief program continues to attract credit union support. As of March 24, 107 credit unions had committed $978,842,000 in mortgages to the HLPR...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - When CUNA announced the Home Loan Payment Relief program last October, Royal Credit Union didn't hesitate to offer the loans and market them to the communities it serves. Now the CU has already exhausted its commitment, proving that the HLPR loans have successfully complemented RCU's other...

MADISON, Wis. - Since rolling out its new Index Annuity, MEMBERS Financial Services is seeing some early success. The division of CUNA Mutual Group has launched the MEMBERS Index Annuity. Similar to a fixed-rate annuity with a guaranteed return, but unlike a fixed-rate annuity, it has the potential to earn...

WASHINGTON - The Government Accountability Office is in the early stages of a study on the credit union tax-exemption, but it still may be completed separately from Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas' (R-Calif.) latest request. "We're still collecting information and analyzing that data," Yvonne Jones, a director in...