An expected cut of child care subsidies to hundreds of Fairfax County children was delayed Monday as supervisors again look to the commonwealth to bridge a multimillion-dollar funding gap.

County staff had planned to drop 1,700 children by Oct. 15 and lose another 200 through attrition as a result of cuts in federal child care funds that the state General Assembly refused to supplement. But the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has scrubbed that deadline in the hopes Virginia officials still can find money to address the shortfall.