H&R Mortgage Corp. Adds Lay-Offs

An Option One Mortgage Corp. subsidiary is closing its doors. AcuLink Mortgage Solutions LLC has filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Notice with Florida indicating it will lay off 67 people on June 12, 2007. According to an announcement, the company was originally launched in 2005 with the help of ValuAmerica to provide settlement services to H&R Block Mortgage Corp. and initially included a staff of approximately 30 people. H&R Block Mortgage Corp. announced earlier this month that they had laid off 141 employees in Tampa due to a move to H&R Block Bank.