changes in the aggregate unemployment from the macro module to determine the probability of HHMs’ staying employed over the adverse simulation horizon . These probabilities are mainly relevant for the HHMs who are mortgage debtors. Since in the HFCS data mortgages are only reported at the HH level and links to particular HHMs are missing, for HHs with more than two HHMs, we use an algorithm that assigns the mortgage loans to the relatively younger income earning members of the household. The loan is assigned to at most two income earning members, for whom the