Congress is running up against a September 30 fiscal deadline to
reappropriate federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance
Program (CHIP). California serves about 1.6 million low-income
children and mothers by drawing down nearly half a billion
dollars annually in CHIP funding.
Without CHIP funding, some families risk losing coverage for
their children if their income is too high to qualify for
Medicaid/Medi-Cal and too low to purchase family coverage. CSAC
strongly supports a four-year extension of funding for CHIP,
including the enhanced federal matching rate of 88 cents per
dollar spent. Additional details on the funding situation for
CHIP are available
here .
