This article was originally published by Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts and was written by Michael Ollove.

Congress didn’t meet the Sept. 30 deadline for renewing the $15 billion a year CHIP program, which provides health care for children and pregnant women from low-income families who don’t qualify for Medicaid. While committees in both houses of Congress passed bills to reauthorize CHIP last week, it doesn’t appear that a final measure will emerge soon.

That left Arizona and many other states scrambling to continue running the program without the nearly 90 percent federal CHIP match. States with funding left over from last year can use two-thirds of those savings to continue running their programs. (By statute, they must return one-third to the federal government.)

But the law allows the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to distribute funds left over from an earlier period, prior to 2016, to help now in cases of a shortage in CHIP funds.

CMS finally announced those dispersals this week. Arizona will receive $21.8 million, California $176.9 million, Minnesota $3.6 million, Washington $10.4 million and Oregon $14.2 million. The balance of the $230 million is going to the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands.

The extra money will help those states keep their programs going a little longer.

Arizona to receive monies from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide health care for children and pregnant women from low-income families under CHIP program.

Some states are statutorily required to end their programs when the federal CHIP money stops. Others will be faced with difficult decisions, whether to devote additional state resources to CHIP or cut enrollment or benefits.