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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. Take Action! highlights surveys or forms the government is changing, renewing, or introducing. If you want to tell the government what you think about the changes they are making, follow these steps:
- 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.
- Skim the listing to find instructions on how to submit a comment. For most listings, this information will be found in a section titled "Addresses."
- Write in to tell the government what you think! Most listings allow you to either:
- Send an email to the point of contact for that survey or form, or
- Send your thoughts to the agency or the White House through the reginfo.gov website.
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| Due Date | Collection | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-10 | Improving Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part A and B Formula Awards Using Most Recent Address Data | HRSA | HRSA is proposing a change to the methodology they use to allocate RWHA funding. Under this proposal, HRSA would calculate RWHAP Part A and B formula awards using case data based on most recent address, rather than residence at diagnosis, with a phase-in timeline and use of appropriate action to minimize funding fluctuations. | HIV/AIDS |
| 2025-12-12 | Master Files of Social Security Number (SSN) Holders and SSN Applications | SSA | Through this notice, SSA is announcing its intention to share citizenship and immigration data with DHS and to share data with Treasury for the purpose of identifying, preventing, or recouping fraud and improper payments. | Immigration |
| 2025-12-15 | Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) | ED | IPEDS collects data from postsecondary institutions on topics like enrollments, degrees and other awards earned, tuition and fees, average net price, student financial aid, graduation rates, student outcomes, revenues and expenditures, faculty salaries, and staff employed. ED is proposing to add a Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement, which is intended to capture information that could indicate whether institutions of higher education are using race-based preferencing in their admissions processes. | Education |
| 2025-12-15 | Small Business Lending Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act | CFPB | Under this proposal, the CFPB would dramatically change the type of data collected from lenders under the ECOA. Changes would include ceasing the collection of disaggregated race and ethnicity data, removing questions about LGBTQ-owned businesses, reducing the number of entities required to comply with the data collection requirements, and ceasing collection of data points like denial reason and pricing information. | Economic Development |
| 2025-12-17 | FDIC Records Systems | FDIC | FDIC is modifying all of its records systems to increase interagency information sharing to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse, including with the Treasury Department. In addition, FDIC is modifying two records systems to use the term "sex" insteady of "gender." | Data Sharing |
| 2025-12-18 | Determining Eligibility for Enrollment in Applicable State Health Subsidy Programs | HHS/CMS | Under this matching program, CMS will share data with state administering entities to determine applicants' eligibility for enrollment in applicable state health subsidy programs, including exemption from the requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage or from the individual responsibility payment. In addition, to avoid dual enrollment, information will be shared between CMS and AEs, and among AEs, for the purpose of verifying whether applicants and enrollees are currently eligible for or enrolled in a Medicaid/CHIP program. All information will be shared through a data services hub established by CMS to support the federally-facilitated health insurance exchange and state-based exchanges. | Healthcare |
| 2025-12-18 | Fair Housing Home Loan Data System | Treasury | Treasury is proposing to rescind its Fair Housing Home Loan Data System regulation, arguing that the rule is largely duplicative of and inconsistent with other legal authorities that require national banks to collect and retain information on applications for home loans. The rule was issued "to provide a basis for a more effective fair housing monitoring program for home loans;" according to the listing, OCC examiners use data collected under the rule to assess fair lending risk at national banks. | Housing |
| 2025-12-19 | Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration | State | This form collects information necessary for consular officers to determine the eligibility and classification of an individual seeking an immigrant visa. In response to public comments from immigration attorneys, State made several changes to the form to simplify language or reporting requirements; however, State indicated that many concerns raised in the comments were deferred to a future effort to modernize the system overall. | Immigration |
| 2025-12-19 | Weekly Claims and Extended Benefits Data and Weekly Initial and Continued Weeks Claimed | DOL | Data collected through this program is used to assess the beginning, continuance, or termination of an Extended Benefit period in any State, which determine the EB trigger rate. Also, data on initial and continued claims are used to help determine economic indicators. There do not appear to be any significant changes to this collection. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-12-19 | HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program HIV Quality Measures Module | HHS | RWHAP funds and coordinates with cities, states, and local clinics/community-based organizations to deliver efficient and effective HIV care, treatment, and support to low-income people with HIV. The HIVQM is an online tool to assist recipients in meeting the clinical quality management program requirement by allowing recipients to input data for the HRSA performance measures. HHS is changing the gender question to ask only about sex at birth, removing options to report on transgender participants in its programs. Roughly 20-25% of transgender women are living with HIV; trans women are 66 times more likely to have HIV and trans men are nearly 7 times more likely to have HIV. | HIV/AIDS |
| 2026-01-02 | Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services | DHS | This proposed rule would require submission of biometrics by any individual, regardless of age, filing or associated with an immigration benefit request, other request, or collection of information, unless exempted; expand biometrics collection authority upon arrest of a non-citizen; define “biometrics;” codify reuse requirements; codify and expand DNA testing, use and storage; establish an “extraordinary circumstances” standard to excuse a failure to appear at a biometric services appointment; modify how VAWA self-petitioners and T nonimmigrant status applicants demonstrate good moral character; and clarify biometrics collection purposes. DNA use changes include testing for "biological sex" and for genetic relationship between family members. | Immigration |
| 2026-01-12 | Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study | ED | TIMSS is an international assessment of fourth and eighth grade students' achievement in mathematics and science. | Science and Technology |
| 2026-01-20 | Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and Non-Traffic Surveillance (NTS) | DOT | FARS collects data on fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes and non-crash events, which aids in the establishment and enforcement of motor vehicle regulations and highway safety programs. The listing is unclear about what changes are being made to the collection. | Transportation |