President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed that it has downsized the office set up to implement the controversial CLASS Act program created by the national health care law, but denies that it has shut down the office entirely.

“While the staff of the CLASS office has been reduced, reports that the CLASS office is closing are not accurate,” HHS said in a statement, as reported by Sarah Kliff at the Washington Post. “We are continuing our analysis of this program. As we have said in the past, it is an open question whether the program will be implemented. A CLASS program will only be implemented if it is fiscally solvent, self-sustaining, and consistent with the statute.”