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NOTE 9 RECEIVABLES | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2011
Loans, Notes, Trade and Other Receivables Disclosure [Text Block] | NOTE 9 RECEIVABLES Receivables consisted of the following at the dates indicated:
|  | Receivables |  |  | Allowance for Credit Losses |  |  | Net |
December 30, 2011 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Servicing (1) |  | $ | 53,852 |  |  | $ | (1,648 | ) |  | $ | 52,204 |
Income taxes receivable |  |  | 21,518 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 21,518 |
Affordable housing (2) |  |  | 5,568 |  |  |  | (5,019 | ) |  |  | 549 |
Due from Altisource (3) |  |  | 2,309 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 2,309 |
Other receivables (4) |  |  | 7,884 |  |  |  | (1,262 | ) |  |  | 6,622 |
|  | $ | 91,131 |  |  | $ | (7,929 | ) |  | $ | 83,202 |
December 31, 2010 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Servicing (1) |  | $ | 59,436 |  |  | $ | (262 | ) |  | $ | 59,174 |
Income taxes receivable |  |  | 3,620 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 3,620 |
Affordable housing (2) |  |  | 6,882 |  |  |  | (5,866 | ) |  |  | 1,016 |
Due from Altisource (3) |  |  | 2,445 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 2,445 |
Other receivables |  |  | 4,586 |  |  |  | (1,323 | ) |  |  | 3,263 |
|  | $ | 76,969 |  |  | $ | (7,451 | ) |  | $ | 69,518 |
(1) | The balances at December 31, 2011 and 2010 arise from our Servicing business and primarily include reimbursable expenditures due from investors and amounts to be recovered from the custodial accounts of the trustees.
(2) | The balances at December 31, 2011 and 2010 primarily represent annual payments to be received through June 2014 for proceeds from sales of investments in affordable housing properties. None of these receivables is delinquent.
(3) | See Note 28 for additional information regarding our relationship with Altisource and transactions between Ocwen and Altisource.
(4) | The balance includes the interest rate cap we entered into in 2011 which had a fair value of $3,600 at December 31, 2011. See Note 19 for additional information regarding our derivative financial instruments.
Receivable balances are evaluated individually. The change in the allowance for credit losses for 2011 and the balance of the related receivables at those dates were as follows (the disclosure requirements for the allowance for credit losses do not apply to mortgage banking activities, including the long-term servicing of loans, such as the activities of our Servicing segment):
|  | Affordable Housing |  |  | Other |  |  | Total |
Allowance for credit losses balance at December 31, 2010 |  | $ | 5,866 |  |  | $ | 1,323 |  |  | $ | 7,189 |
Charge offs |  |  | — |  |  |  | (8 | ) |  |  | (8 | )
Recoveries |  |  | (48 | ) |  |  | (140 | ) |  |  | (188 | )
Provision (reversal), net |  |  | (799 | ) |  |  | 87 |  |  |  | (712 | )
Allowance for credit losses balance at December 31, 2011 |  | $ | 5,019 |  |  | $ | 1,262 |  |  | $ | 6,281 |
Receivables balance at December 31, 2011 |  | $ | 5,568 |  |  | $ | 7,884 |  |  | $ | 13,452 |

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