BY JANIE LORBER | janie.lorber@newsday.com A $30-million grant program included in yesterday's landmark federal housing bill would help thousands of mortgage holders get face-to-face advice from credit counselors. The funding, provided in an amendment to the bill by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola), would go to nonprofit groups that offer counseling to families on the brink of foreclosure and also try to head off bad loans by helping prospective homeowners. "We are trying to reach out to these people," McCarthy said yesterday. "We know that sometimes people are embarrassed to ask for help." With more than 1,200 foreclosure-related filings in Nassau and Suffolk counties in June, according to RealtyTrac, an online foreclosure database, Long Island credit counseling services say the added funding is critical. "We have no other...
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