The Washington Examiner

By: Philip Klein, Robert King, and Kimberly Leonard

States start to prepare for the worst with CHIP. State officials are worried about the future of the program, despite lawmaker assurances they will reauthorize it.

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Nevada expects to run out of funds by late November or early December and may have to start warning families on Nov. 1, according to Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families. “State laws in Arizona and West Virginia, along with Colorado for a portion of its CHIP enrollees, make CHIP coverage contingent on federal funding,” the center said. “West Virginia is in the process of getting a legal interpretation of whether that means October 1, assuming there is no new federal funding for CHIP, or when the state exhausts any carryover funds in early 2018.”

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