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PNC Mortgage has settled a suit brought by the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) for alleged discrimination. The suit charges that the Trumbull, Connecticut company violated the Fair Housing Act by requiring a mortgage applicant who was on paid maternity leave to return to work before it would approve her loan. The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability. HUD said that refusing to approve a mortgage loan because a woman is pregnant or on maternity leave violates the Fair Housing Act's prohibitions against sex and familial status discrimination. According to John TrasviƱa, Assistant Secretary...(
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