In XXXX of XXXX, I received a letter from Citimortgage stating that the Making Home Affordable program announced an expansion of borrower " pay for performance '' incentives for eligible loans modified under the Home Affordable Modification Program ( HAMP ). Since I did have this type of loan, I assumed this program applied to me. It lists the criteria I must meet in order to be eligible to received a {$5000.00} incentive and the {$5000.00} incentive would be applied as a lump-sum principal balance reduction payment shortly after the 6th anniversary of my HAMP Trial Period Plan effective date. It also states " that the incentive will be shown on your monthly Mortgage Account Statement, and THERE IS NO ACTION REQUIRED FROM YOU '' to get this incentive. I waited for my anniversary date of XXXX/XXXX/XXXX for the incentive to be applied. On XXXX/XXXX/XXXX, when I still did not get the incentive, my wife phoned customer service to ask what had happened and was told that I was supposed to sign the recertification papers and send them back. WHAT RECERTIFICATION PAPERS? The only paper that I received was the letter dated XXXX XXXX, XXXX, that I 've enclosed for your review. AT NO TIME, did I receive any other papers to sign or else I definitely would have signed them and sent them in. I was just under the assumption of the instructions on the letter, NO ACTION REQUIRED FROM YOU. If the letter had said, unless you send in your recertification papers by a certain date, you will not be eligible to receive this incentive, I would have called and said that I never got any such papers. Now, according to the customer service rep that my wife talked to at Citimortgage, the time has passed to send in these papers and that because I missed the deadline, I will not be getting this incentive. I feel that this letter was misleading and lead me to believe there was nothing more I needed to do to get this incentive. I ca n't begin to tell you how completely devastated I am that I will not be getting the {$5000.00} incentive. I have paid my mortgage on time for over 6 years and I think it is terrible that they can do this to me. Whatever help you can give me in this matter would be extremely appreciated. 
