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Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that decision.
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- Click on the name of the survey or form.
The link will bring you to a listing in the "Federal Register" — a daily newsletter filled with the government's regulations, surveys, forms, public meetings, and other actions
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For most listings, this information will be found in a section titled "Addresses"
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| Due Date | Collection | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-25 | Designation of the SSA's Numerical Identification System (Numident) Into Do Not Pay | SSA | Treasury is issuing this Notice of Proposed Designation to provide the public an opportunity to comment on the proposed designation of the Social Security Administration's Numerical Identification System (Numident) to the Do Not Pay Working System for the purpose of identifying and preventing improper payments. Notably, While the full Numident database contains all the information SSA receives on applications for SSNs, the designation to the Do Not Pay Working System will be limited in scope, allowing Do Not Pay users to verify only three data elements associated with a payment or award recipient under a health or income maintenance program—name, SSN, and DOB. Further, the notice indicates that the agreement includes strict retention and use protocols. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-02-25 | Peace Corps and Treasury Data Sharing Agreement | Peace Corps | Through this notice, the Peace Corps is announcing its intention to share data from four of its records systems with the Department of Treasury for the purposes of identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments to an applicant for, or recipient of Federal funds, including funds disbursed by a state in a state-administered, federally funded program. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-02-26 | State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) | HHS/CDC | SUDORS is designed to detect new trends in fatal unintentional drug overdoses, support targeting drug overdose prevention efforts, and assess the progress of the HHS initiative to reduce opioid misuse and overdoses. Through this listing, CDC is proposing a number of changes to the collection, including collecting additional information about place of death, mental health, and substance use. CDC is making some changes to the race and ethnicity data elements - including collecting more detailed data on Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander respondents - but will not fully implement SPD15 at this time. | Drug Use |
| 2026-02-27 | Understanding Service Member Experiences with Family Planning | DOD | According to the listing, this study will highlight areas related to family planning that "may threaten DoDs ability to field a ready and lethal force." It will also point to areas where DoD may need to augment or develop care, programs, services, or policies that provide needed reproductive health care and family planning services to the force in order to "maintain and enhance health, readiness, retention, and lethality." | Reproductive Justice |
| 2026-02-27 | Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: ASTP/ONC Deregulatory Actions To Unleash Prosperity | HHS | This proposed rule aims to "remove duplicative and unnecessary requirements of the ONC Health IT Certification Program." To achieve this goal, HHS is removing more than half of its health IT certification criteria, changing a half dozen of the remaining criteria, and maintaining the remaining 19 criteria as is. The patient demographics criteria are being revised to remove requirements to collect sexual orientation, gender identity, name to use, and pronouns. HHS is also removing criteria related to restrictions on data re-disclosure, care plans, transparency and risk-management requirements, privacy and security, and accessibility-centered design. | Healthcare |
| 2026-03-02 | Head Start Program Information Report | HHS/ACF | ACF is adding new questions to the Head Start PIR form, including on primary reasons children with an Individualized Education Program or Individualized Family Service Plan did not receive services, the number of children who had a 504 Plan, and total number of children (and pregnant women in Early Head Start programs) that are on the program's waiting list on the last operating day of the requested month. | Education |
| 2026-03-02 | Restoring Integrity to the Issuance of Non-Domiciled Commercial Drivers Licenses (CDL) | DOT | This form collects State-level information regarding CLPs and CDLs that were issued to people who do not live in the US and the documentation that was provided during the application process for those non-domiciled CLPs and CLDs. The requirements for this collection were included in an Interim Final Rule that has been stayed by the DC Court of Appeals. DOT is moving the information collection through the process "in order to ensure that the collection will be able to be enforced as soon as the stay is lifted." | Immigration |
| 2026-03-02 | Medical Expenditure Panel Survey—Household Component | HHS | MEPS collects data on the specific health services that Americans use, how frequently they use them, the cost of these services, and how they are paid for, as well as data on the cost, scope, and breadth of health insurance held by and available to U.S. workers. HHS is making a number of changes to the MEPS, including removing questions on birth control, gender, aspirin use, and counseling; adding questions about use of sleep medication, trouble getting to sleep, screen time, use of wearable devices, self-assessed diet quality, fruit and vegetable consumption, meals eaten away from home, former smoking, and weight loss attempts; and making changes to a number of other questions. | Health and Safety |
| 2026-03-02 | Civil Rights and Conscience Complaint and Health Information Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Complaint | HHS | These forms collect the minimum information needed from individuals filing complaints with the Office of Civil Rights to form the basis for the initial processing of those complaints. While the changes being made to the forms are somewhat unclear, according to the listing, the forms are being revised to reduce burden and to conform with a court case which put on hold the HHS Section 1557 rule, which defined sex discrimination as including “sex characteristics, including intersex traits”; “pregnancy or related conditions”; “sexual orientation”; “gender identity”; and “sex stereotypes.” | Non-Discrimination |
| 2026-03-04 | Ticket to Work Program Evaluation | SSA | SSA is conducting a new evaluation of the Ticket to Work Program, which is designed to increase the availability of and access to employment services for adults with disabilities receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI). SSA is contracting with Mathematica to conduct this evaluation, which they hope will provide the evidence base necessary to determine the need for potential programmatic changes or other proposals to maximize program effectiveness. | Disability |
| 2026-03-05 | 2026 Operational Test in Support of the 2030 Census | Census | This Test will test the viability of new and revamped systems and methods researched and developed for the census; to identify, document, and address potential challenges. Of note, Census will conduct the test in only two of its six proposed sites, will test using postal workers as enumerators, and will use the American Community Survey - rather than the decennial Census - to test self-response and will use a modified version of the ACS to test in-field enumeration. The American Community Survey is much longer than the decennial Census and includes a question on citizenship, calling into question the accuracy of any learnings from this test. | Data Collection |
| 2026-03-05 | Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2027) | ED/NCES | TIMSS is an international assessment of fourth and eighth grade students' achievement in mathematics and science. The listing indicates that changes to the study are being made, but it's unclear what those changes will be. | Education |
| 2026-03-05 | Updated Criteria for Determining Maternity Care Health Professional Target Areas | HRSA | Through this notice, HRSA is changing the criteria it uses to identify maternity care target areas that have a shortage of maternity care health professionals) for the purpose of assigning National Health Service Corps participants who are maternity care health professionals to HPSAs with a shortage of such professionals. HRSA will no longer use the Social Vulnerability Index in its determinations. According to the listing, "200 of the more than 7,600 MCTAs may be subject to a decrease in MCTA score. These largely include MCTAs designated for Medicaid eligible population, low-income migrant seasonal worker population, low-income migrant farmworker population, and other population primary care HPSAs." | Reproductive Justice |
| 2026-03-05 | National Compensation Survey | DOL/BLS | The NCS collects data on employer costs for employee compensation, including wages and salaries, and benefits; compensation trends; and the incidence of employer-sponsored benefits among workers. These data are used to calculate statistics like change in labor costs over time, details of employer-provided health and retirement benefit plans, and wage data by occupation. BLS intends to eliminate several questions, including on sick leave carryover, non-medical premiums, the provision of other benefits, and workers compensation. The listing indicates that changes are being made to this survey, but no supplemental information about the changes is available. | Labor/Employment |
| 2026-03-09 | SNAP Review of Major Changes in Program Design and Management Evaluation Systems | USDA | When state agencies make a major change to the operations of their SNAP programs, including integrating automation tools (including AI and bots) or increasing the use of non-merit staff (such as contractors or temporary employees), they use this form to notify FNS and to provide FNS with the information they need to identify and correct any adverse effects on program integrity or access. If FNS determines that a change meets the "major change" threshold, states are required to collect and report monthly State-level data on application processing metrics - although the notice specifies that sub-state level data may be collected in some instances. FNS also notes in the listing that "Depending on the nature of the major change, State agencies may be required to report more specific or timely information concerning impacts on payment accuracy, which may include additional caseload data focused on households with particular characteristics. " | Food Access |
| 2026-03-09 | Behavioral Health Integration Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program Integration Telehealth Evidence Collection Tool | HHS/HRSA | The purpose of the BHI EP-TNP program is to integrate behavioral health services into primary care settings using telehealth technology through telehealth networks and evaluate the effectiveness of such integration. This form collects data that illustrate the impact and scope of program funding along with assessing these efforts. | Mental Health |
| 2026-03-09 | Bureau of Health Workforce Performance Data Collection | HHS/HRSA | Data collected from grantees through these forms are used to inform policymakers on the barriers, opportunities, and outcomes involved in health care workforce development. HRSA is making significant changes to this suite of forms, including removing four forms and 50 questions that are "no longer needed," and revising race and ethnicity questions to comply with OMB's revisions to SPD15. Earlier in the year, HRSA removed questions about gender identity and response options about transgender and nonbinary people from this set of forms without providing an opportunity for public comment. | Labor/Employment |
| 2026-03-11 | CMS and SSA Data Sharing and Matching Program | CMS/SSA | The purpose of the matching program is to provide CMS with SSA information which CMS will use to determine individuals' eligibility for initial enrollment in a Qualified Health Plan through an Exchange; for Insurance Affordability Programs (such as Medicaid, CHIP, BHP, and tax credits and cost sharing reductions); for certificates of exemption from the shared responsibility payment; and to make eligibility redeterminations and renewal decisions, including appeal determinations. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-03-11 | FERC and Treasury Data Sharing Agreement | FERC | Through this notice, FERC is sharing data from 21 of its records systems with the Treasury Department "for the purposes of identifying, preventing, or recouping fraud and improper payments, to the extent permissible by law." | Data Sharing |
| 2026-03-11 | Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey | Census | HTOPS is a probability-based, nationwide, nationally-representative survey designed to test methods to collect data on a variety of topics of interest, and for conducting experimentation on alternative question wording and methodological approaches. Through this notice, Census is announcing both content changes and a methodological change - shifting from a longitudinal panel to a cross-sectional design. Content topics include employment status, use of artificial intelligence for work, unemployment insurance receipt, income, food security, housing, physical and mental health, disability, social connection, community and civic engagement, access to transportation, vaccine receipt, use of Narcan to reverse overdose, childcare, access to infant formula, arts participation, trust in institutions, and insurance coverage. | Data Collection |