The Department of Housing and Urban Development will soon announce a pilot program to test the feasibility of paying claims on FHA loan defaults on an accelerated basis, according to the government’s latest semiannual rulemaking agenda. The new FHA test – called the Accelerated Claim Disposition demonstration – would actually implement authority granted to the agency back in 1998 that has never been put to use. Under the ACD pilot, HUD will pay accelerated claims