The FHA Connection Business to Government (FHAC B2G) is a way for a Loan Origination System to send information to the FHA Connection in an automated fashion. For a detailed explanation of FHAC B2G functions, please see the FHAC B2G Welcome Package.
Specifications may change with short notice. To stay informed about specification changes please make sure we have your email. Please check our registry to make sure we have your contact information. You may add or update your information as required.
Access to FHAC B2G systems requires authentication. To gain access to the test environment to build and test your client applications for origination functions you will need to provide a valid FHA Lender ID to sfadmin@hud.gov.
Any institution requesting access to the servicing B2G test environment must first have an existing production FHAC connection ID.
When designing your client applications you will need to be aware of the following regulations:
As stated in Mortgagee Letters 97-14 and 93-13, each FHA Connection user must obtain their own user ID. User IDs are NOT to be shared. Passwords should never be shared, displayed online or divulged publicly. They should not be given to third parties in telephone conversations, placed on office message boards, or left written on telephone message notes on unattended workstations. Using an FHA Connection user ID assigned to another person falls under the provisions of Title 18, United States Code, section 1030. This law specifies penalties for exceeding authorized access, alteration, damage or destruction of information residing on federal computers.
Your client applications will need to be able to collect individual user access credentials to be used when authenticating each connection to B2G functions. All IDs must actually belong to individuals; there are no IDs assigned to services. At no time should any user be able to access a transaction using an ID that does not belong to them.
When you are preparing your software for deployment against the production environment you will need a valid FHA Connection ID for the production server. If you do not already have a production ID you will need to contact your Application Coordinator (or the application coordinator of one of your clients if you do not directly represent an FHA lender) as we cannot authorize access to the production environment through this office.
Your B2G client application will need to post XML documents as the value portion of a name/value pair in the body of the request. The name portion of the name/value pair may not be "request," "xml," "post," "datain" or any other common name typically associated with HTTP handshaking but it is not otherwise restricted.
The connection uses BASIC authentication over a 128 bit HTTPS transport. You will need to set the content header to application/x-www-form-urlencoded to ensure that the application server parses your request properly. The result of your request is returned as an XML document. At this level; your client application is acting exactly like a web browser posting an HTML form to a server.
The download contains some sample code that illustrates posting data to B2G functions:
- Java client class
- Java simple application class
- Java client source
- Java simple application example source
The samples are examples to facilitate your own client application development only; no explicit or implied support in the use or modification for use of these examples is offered.
If you are not familiar with the FHA Insurance business processes we strongly suggest that you partner with an FHA lender for assistance because the assistance we can offer here is primarily technical and will be limited in detail and scope when discussing FHA Insurance business rules.
Contacts:
For technical questions and problems: fhab2g@hud.govFor assistance with business processes: answers@hud.gov
For assistance with user logins: sfadmin@hud.gov
Change Log
| October 3, 2024 Updates to Insurance Application, Case Number Assignment, Case Query, Refinance Authorization |
| August 20, 2024 Updates to Insurance Application, HECM Insurance Application, and Case Number Assignment |
| July 18, 2024 Updates to Insurance Application and HECM Insurance Application |
| October 31, 2023 Updates to Case Number Assignment, HECM Financial Assessment, HECM Insurance Application, and Insurance Application |
| October 10, 2023 Updates to Case Query and addition of support for Case Cancel/Reinstate |
| August 28, 2023 Added support for SCIF Borrower data in Borrower/Address Change, Insurance Application, and HECM Insurance Application |
| March 25, 2023 ON HOLD - Addition of support for Borrower Requested Appraisal Review |
| November 28, 2022 Changes to Flood Insurance for Insurance Application and HECM Insurance Application |
| April 11, 2022 (Mandatory July 11) Addition of flood insurance fields to Insurance Application and HECM Insurance Application |
| May 7, 2021 Changes to Insurance Application to support employee loan rules |
| February 1, 2021 Changes to Borrower/Address Change, HECM Insurance Application, and Insurance Application to support upcoming HMDA and LIBOR updates. |
| August 1, 2019 Update to Case Number Assignment for Single Unit Approval for condominiums |
| March 4, 2019 Updates to Case Transfer, Single Family Servicing, Rules of Behavior |
| September 10, 2018 Updates to Borrower/Address Change, Case Number Assignment, and Insurance Application to accommodate Government Entity Borrowers |
| September 18, 2017 Updates to Borrower/Address Change and HECM Insurance Application Addition of new function: Certificate Search |
| December 30, 2016 Release to production will be January 14th, 2017 Updates to Borrower/Address Change and Insurance Application LoanPurpose and OtherLoanPurposeDescription (RefinanceImprovements becomes FinanceImprovements) |
| September 26, 2016 HECM Financial Assessment Insurance Application HECM Certificate (interface unchanged - changes are internal) Also, for all pilot/test connections; please use "entptest.hud.gov" instead of "hwvalwd3231.hud.gov" |
| August 1, 2016 203K Calculator |
| Handbook Updates March 14, 2016 implemented April 16, 2016 Changes to:
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| Handbook rollout, March 14, 2016 postponed to April 16, 2016 Changes to:
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| March 14, 2016 Handbook Updates
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January 15, 2016
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January 7, 2016
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December 22, 2015
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October 27, 2015
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| October 16, 2015 Insurance Application Updates to data dictionary |
| September 25, 2015 Changes to Counseling Confirmation definitions for Insurance Application |
| August 24, 2015 Minor corrections to data dictionary and final release date for HUD Handbook update
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| August 17, 2015 Added output fields for prior loan service for HECM cases
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| August 12, 2015 Fixed typo in schema
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| August 6, 2015 HUD Handbook Changes
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| June 22, 2015 HUD Handbook Changes
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March 12, 2015
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February 9, 2015
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| November 26, 2014 Updates to:
HECM Insurance, Borrower/Address Change, and Case Number Assignment gain a new attribute (_Eligible) to the _NonBorrowerSpouse element to designate eligibility for the "Safeguard to Prevent Displacement of Homeowner" as defined in Subsection 255(j) of the National Housing Act. Please see Mortgagee Letter 2014-07 for details. Secondary Financing gains a new value for financing source. |
| May 28, 2014 Updates to:
Changes to Insurance Application and the addition of the Secondary Financing function are in response to ML 2014-08. Changes to HECM Insurance Application, Borrower/Address Change, Case Query, and Case Number Assignment are in response to the inclusion of non-borrowing spouses in response to ML 2014-07. |
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| November 16, 2013 Updates to:
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August 26, 2013
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