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Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

A federal-state program that provides enhanced federal funding for:

  1. Medical Assistance (MA) services to children under age two with household incomes between 275 percent and 280 percent of the federal poverty guidelines (FPG);
  2. MA services to uninsured pregnant women who are nonimmigrants or undocumented, through the period of pregnancy, including labor and delivery and, subject to federal approval, 60 days postpartum; and
  3. MinnesotaCare services to children with household incomes between 133 percent and 275 percent of FPG.

Originally published January 2011. The fiscal year 2011 projections are from the Department of Human Services, November 2010 forecasts of family self-sufficiency and medical programs. Other data are from DHS, MDE, MHFA, and other sources.