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The same issue could plague another component, a "federal hub" that the administration must build to serve all state exchanges, regardless of who runs them.

State health officials in Arkansas, who have been working with their federal counterparts on a partnership exchange for months, said they have been told that the federal hub — which the administration has contracted tech firm QSSI to produce — has progressed enough for them to begin testing.

At least a half-dozen states, including Colorado and Oregon, have said that they won't offer full online enrollment through their exchanges because the federal hub that is supposed to link to help them determine the subsidies people are eligible for isn't working properly," writes American Enterprise Institute fellow Scott Gottlieb, for the Wall Street Journal.

For Metro, which services numerous federal hubs, including L'Enfant Plaza, Medical Center and Pentagon, the impact of an extended shutdown could be acute.

The rest are having trouble getting their identity verified through a process that requires the state exchange to communicate with a federal data hub.

Also not clear are the standards — and the work required — for states to upgrade their computer systems to link with the federal data hub.

Separate security testing for the Web site's federal data hub, which helps determine eligibility for financial aid by verifying data with many federal agencies, has been completed and the hub has a permanent security certification, Bataille said.

These inconsistencies have arisen as the information listed on their applications has been cross-checked, via a newly built federal data hub, with the Social Security Administration and other federal agencies, as well as incarceration, IRS and immigration records.

"We were confident it would work on October 1 and in fact it has," Andy Slavitt, who represented contractor QSSI at the hearing, said of the federal data hub that his employer built.

The site has also been problematic for Medicaid applicants, who have struggled with "incorrect eligibility determinations, stuck cases, difficulties in choosing managed care organizations, as well as with sending enrollment data" to the federal Medicaid hub, according to the budget report.

The exchange also said its efforts were hampered by the federal data hub frequently being offline in the fall.