About 4,000 borrowers who were either scheduled to have foreclosure sales or who were going to receive foreclosure notices will be left alone until January 17th, according to CNN.

“We hope that with this suspension we can make the holidays a little less stressful for our customers who are going through a very difficult time,” said Sanjiv Das, chief executive of CitiMortgage, in a statement.

“Citi’s holiday treat: No foreclosures for a month” [CNN]

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