21.   Only children eligible for the federal school lunch program would be considered for the program.

22.   One is to make sure that all eligible children enroll in Medicaid, the federal-state health program for low-income people.

23.   Parents can take this credit for a child, direct descendant, stepchild or eligible foster child.

24.   Since then, he said, states have been voluntarily providing information on the adoption of eligible foster children, although the information is incomplete.

25.   Some states say they cannot find enough eligible uninsured children to use all the money they are entitled to receive.

26.   States may not use the new federal money to cover children eligible for Medicaid.

27.   Staton believes, based on the Urban Institute study, that the proposed premiums will shut out as many as half the children eligible for the program.

28.   States followed through by making many more children eligible to be adopted and launching new efforts to find them families.

29.   That needed move would still leave another million eligible children out of the program.

30.   The CHIP program relies on states to sign up eligible children.