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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.
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:
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- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-08 | Extra Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs program | SSA | SSA is re-establishing a data-sharing agreement with OPM to match civil service annuity records against Medicare data. SSA will use the match to verify eligibility for Medicare Part D “Extra Help” subsidies and to identify people who may qualify for the benefit for outreach. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-09-08 | Healthy Start Evaluation and Quality Improvement | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is revising the participant-level forms used to evaluate the Healthy Start maternal and infant health program by clarifying instructions, updating and separating unspecified response options, and adding fields for the month of an infant’s birth or death. The notice does not provide draft forms or identify the affected categories, making the full extent of the changes unclear, but at a minimum this revision will formalize the removal of gender identity questions from the forms. | Healthcare |
| 2026-09-08 | ATUS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Questions | DOL/BLS | BLS is proposing a new two-minute module for the American Time Use Survey that would ask whether and how people use AI and link those responses to their 24-hour activity diaries. Beginning in 2027, the questions would produce nationally representative data on AI use across tasks, demographic and occupational groups, and work, education, household, and leisure activities. | Science and Technology |
| 2026-09-08 | Questionnaire for National Security Positions | OPM | OPM is renewing the SF-86 national-security background questionnaire after making earlier changes to align personnel vetting with the administration’s gender policy. Related revisions remove an optional pronoun question and delete explicit references to sexual orientation and gender identity from the nondiscrimination statement and from questions asking whether applicants targeted people or advocated unlawful violence based on protected characteristics. | Federal Government |
| 2026-09-08 | FEMA and HUD Data Matching Program | HUD | HUD is re-establishing a data-sharing agreement with FEMA that allows HUD and participating disaster-recovery grantees to match disaster-assistance, flood-insurance, and housing records. The data include identifying information, household characteristics, income, disability and access needs, housing and damage information, insurance coverage, and assistance amounts, and will be used to calculate disaster-recovery funding, conduct outreach, prevent duplicate benefits, and enforce flood-insurance requirements. The renewed agreement also changes some of the data fields exchanged. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-09-08 | Census of Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies (CTLEA) | DOJ/BJS | The CTLEA, last fielded in 2019, collects data on all tribal law enforcement agencies operating in the U.S. Data collected include the number of sworn staff by tribe and type of agency, arrests and call for service and functions performed by each agency. The listing indicates that changes are being made to the survey, but no supplemental materials are available to help us understand what changes are being made. | Policing |
| 2026-09-09 | Lifeline Eligibility | FCC | FCC is establishing a new data-sharing agreement with Iowa to verify Lifeline eligibility by matching applicants and subscribers against state SNAP records. FCC and USAC will send names, dates of birth, and the last four digits of Social Security numbers, and Iowa will return whether the person is enrolled in SNAP. The match may also be used for other federal programs that rely on Lifeline eligibility. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-09-09 | Shaping the Future of Loan Repayment | ED | ED is launching a new study of how federal student-loan borrowers understand and choose repayment plans, including income-driven repayment. Interviews with borrowers will examine how they weigh monthly payments, repayment length, forgiveness, interest subsidies, and other plan features, as well as why borrowers enter or leave IDR and how repayment affects household finances and life decisions. | Education |
| 2026-09-11 | Medical Monitoring Project (MMP) | HHS/CDC | CDC is revising the Medical Monitoring Project, its nationally representative study of adults diagnosed with HIV, after removing questions that identify transgender respondents and transgender sexual partners. The collection replaces sex assigned at birth, including an intersex option, with a binary male-or-female question; deletes gender identity questions; and limits questions about recent sexual partners to male or female, reducing CDC’s ability to measure HIV care, service needs, and outcomes among transgender people. | HIV/AIDS |
| 2026-09-11 | Maternal and Child Health Bureau Performance Measures for Discretionary Grant Information System | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is revising the reporting system used by Maternal and Child Health Bureau grantees, formalizing earlier changes that removed gender questions and LGBTQ+ response options; replaced “pregnant/postpartum persons” with “women”; eliminated a health-equity form and many references to DEI, disparities, underrepresented or marginalized groups, social determinants of health, and people with lived experience; and added “Child Health” and “Women’s Health” topic categories. The current notice also changes five forms to use “medically underserved” terminology and removes two training forms because the information is now collected elsewhere. | Healthcare |
| 2026-09-11 | Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) & Temporary Expanded PSLF (TEPSLF) Certification and Application | ED | ED is removing a new PSLF attestation that would have required nonprofits and other public-service employers to certify under penalty of perjury that they had not engaged in activities the administration deemed to have a “substantial illegal purpose.” The Department is withdrawing the language after a federal court vacated the underlying rule one day before it was to take effect, preserving PSLF eligibility for workers at organizations the administration might otherwise have disqualified. No other changes are being made to the form. | Education |
| 2026-09-14 | Alaska Big Game Guide Use Survey | DOI/FWS | FWS is renaming the Alaska Guide Service Evaluation as the Alaska Big Game Guide Use Survey and removing questions identifying the outfitter and guide. It would also eliminate the entire demographic section, including questions about sex, race and ethnicity, age, residence, education, and household income, reducing the agency’s ability to assess who uses guided refuge services or whether experiences vary across groups. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-09-14 | Campus Safety and Security Survey | ED | ED is revising the annual Campus Safety and Security Survey to collect statistics on hazing incidents reported to campus authorities or local police, as required by the Stop Campus Hazing Act. The data will be published alongside other campus crime and safety information. | Education |
| 2026-09-14 | Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Formula | HUD | HUD is seeking comment on possible changes to the formula used to allocate Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding, including proposals to rely less on SBA and FEMA data, base economic-development and infrastructure needs partly on housing damage, and establish different thresholds for metropolitan, rural, and Tribal areas. HUD will continue using its 2025 formula for 2023 and 2024 disasters while it develops a final rule. | Housing |
| 2026-09-16 | Juvenile Facility Census Program (JFCP) | DOJ/OJP | The JFCP consists of two separate survey modules: the Youth Population module collects detailed information on individual youth housed in facilities, including demographic details, placement characteristics, and length of stay; the Facility Operations module collects information on resident services, facility features, and operations. DOJ is making changes to both modules, including formalizing changes to gender questions, removing questions on several services, reformatting population total questions, and streamlining questions on mental health. | Criminal Justice |
| 2026-09-18 | Survey of Housing Starts, Sales, and Completions | DOC/Census | The Census Bureau is seeking to continue, without changes, its monthly Survey of Housing Starts, Sales, and Completions, which collects information from builders and property owners on the timing, characteristics, sale, price, and financing of new residential construction. The survey produces federal statistics on housing starts, completions, and new-home sales; estimated reporting burden is increasing modestly because construction projects are taking longer to start, complete, and sell. | Housing |
| 2026-09-18 | Consumer Price Index Commodities and Services Survey | DOL/BLS | BLS is seeking continued approval for the Consumer Price Index Commodities and Services Survey, which collects prices from retail stores, service providers, doctors’ offices, and other establishments to calculate the commodities and services portion of the CPI. No substantive changes to the collection are proposed. | Economy |
| 2026-09-18 | Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Orders (M3) Survey | DOC/Census | The Census Bureau is seeking to continue, without changes, its monthly Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders Survey, which collects data from about 5,000 manufacturers on shipments, new and unfilled orders, and inventories to measure current industrial activity and future production. Paper reporting was phased out in January 2026, with responses now submitted online or by email. | Economy |
| 2026-09-18 | Attending Physician's Certification of Continuing Workers' Compensation Disability | DOL | DOL is seeking approval for a new standardized form for federal employees receiving continuing workers’ compensation benefits to obtain medical certification of their ongoing disability from their attending physician. The form will collect information about continued disability, medical treatment and work capacity, which OWCP will use to determine continued benefit eligibility and payment amounts and to support return-to-work efforts. The form is new, but the underlying requirement to periodically provide medical evidence of continuing disability is longstanding; the new CA-21 largely standardizes information that workers and physicians currently provide through narrative medical reports. | Disability |
| 2026-09-20 | IRS and Louisiana Data Matching Agreement | IRS | IRS is modifying an existing data-matching agreement used by Louisiana to verify income and determine eligibility and benefit amounts for federally assisted programs. Louisiana can send IRS the names and Social Security numbers of applicants and beneficiaries, and IRS returns detailed unearned-income records, including income type and amount, payer and recipient identifying information, addresses, and account information. Louisiana may run matches monthly for new applicants and annually for all beneficiaries. The modification changes the Louisiana programs participating in the match, with the Department of Children and Family Services no longer participating. | Data Sharing |