The Internal Revenue Service has guidelines for lender cancellation or forgiveness of debt – and the FHA has none. This, however, may be somewhat more complex than it may first appear, cautioned an FHA spokesman. On the one hand, the FHA has no guidelines on the forgiveness or cancellation of mortgage debt that it insures. If the lender wants to cancel some of the borrower’s outstanding indebtedness, it does not need to ask FHA’s permission under normal circumstances, the spokesman made clear. However, the lender may not then try to recover the ...