Iowa Department of Human Services Director Jerry Foxhoven says the state can fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, into April. Congress has yet to renew federal funding for the program, which is called hawk-i in Iowa. It provides health insurance for about 60,000 kids from low and moderate income families in the state. Federal funding for CHIP expired at the end of September. Some states are already running out of CHIP money and are warning families that they may have to end the program soon.
