With the Obama administration increasing pressure on mortgage companies to do more to address mortgage delinquencies, Chase bank announced it has offered more than 568,000 mortgage modifications, for more than $100 billion in loans, to struggling homeowners in 2009.

The modifications include more than 83,000 that already have become permanent, New York City-based Chase said Tuesday. Chase is the U.S. consumer and commercial banking business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM).

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