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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.
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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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| Due Date | Collection | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) benefits | OPM | OPM is re-establishing a data-sharing agreement with the Social Security Administration to match certain FERS disability and survivor annuitants against Social Security benefit records. OPM will use the results to determine eligibility for federal retirement benefits and calculate statutory offsets based on Social Security payments. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-10-20 | OPM and SSA Data Matching Program | OPM | OPM is re-establishing a data-matching program with the Social Security Administration to check whether certain federal retirees and survivors remain eligible for benefits that are subject to earnings limits. OPM will send identifying information, including names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth, to SSA, which will return wage and self-employment income, employer information, and a death indicator when applicable. The match covers certain disability retirees, disabled adult-child survivors, FERS annuity-supplement recipients, and CSRS discontinued-service retirees. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-10-19 | Voluntary Partner Survey on HRSA Customer Service | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is seeking continued approval for voluntary surveys measuring partner organizations’ satisfaction with agency programs and services. As part of the renewal, HRSA is removing gender-identity questions and pronoun language from the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline partner survey and phone script to comply with the administration’s executive order on sex and gender. | Healthcare |
| 2026-10-19 | Linked Open Data on Credentials | DOL | DOL is proposing a new open-data requirement for Strengthening Community Colleges grantees, requiring them to publicly share standardized information about federally funded credentials and competencies using the Credential Transparency Description Language. The data could include credential requirements, skills, costs, delivery methods, occupations and industries served, quality assurances, and outcomes, making credential information easier to find, compare, and reuse. | Education |
| 2026-10-19 | State and Local Government Finance Collections, and Public Employment & Payroll Collections | DOC/Census | Census is proposing revisions to its annual state and local government finance and public employment/payroll collections. The changes would restore selected criminal-justice intergovernmental expenditure questions to support Bureau of Justice Statistics needs, add a clarification on payments to retirement systems, and simplify the public-pensions survey by combining several contribution, membership, and investment items and dropping 16 actuarial items that are currently only published in individual-unit files. | Economy |
| 2026-10-19 | Benefit Timeliness and Quality | DOL | DOL is revising an unemployment-insurance quality-review report to add and clarify codes used to categorize nonmonetary eligibility decisions, including separate codes for noncitizen eligibility and availability issues. The changes are intended to align the quality-review data with separate revisions to states’ unemployment-insurance reporting and do not add the demographic data collection proposed for that related reporting system. | Labor/Employment |
| 2026-10-19 | Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies Program Data Collection | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is substantially revising data collection for its Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (RMOMS) grant program, which supports maternal and obstetric care in rural communities. The revised collection would shift from annual aggregate reporting to twice-yearly patient-level data, while reducing the number of measures from 34 to about 25 and reorganizing them around demographics, prenatal care and pregnancy, labor and delivery, postpartum care, health conditions and behaviors, and support services. | Healthcare |
| 2026-10-13 | National Special Education Spending Study | ED | This study will collect survey information and district financial data during the 2026–27 and 2027–28 school years to produce nationally representative estimates of spending on services for students with disabilities. The study will examine what special education spending pays for, how spending varies by disability category, student and district characteristics, and geography, and how much of those costs are covered by federal IDEA funding. | Disability |
| 2026-10-06 | Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) | DOC/Census | Census plans to replace the 2027 national Survey of Income and Program Participation with a field test of a substantially redesigned SIPP. The test will shift the survey toward internet self-response with limited in-person follow-up, use a six-month reference period, test new sampling and weighting methods, expand use of administrative data, and move SIPP onto new Census-wide collection and processing systems. Census says the redesign is intended to address rising costs, declining response rates, and attrition. | Economic Justice |
| 2026-10-05 | HIV Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) Program | HHS/CDC | CDC is proposing a new evaluation of its HIV Capacity Building Assistance program, which supports health departments and community-based organizations providing HIV prevention services. CDC would use program data and new post-service and follow-up surveys to measure the program’s reach and quality and whether it improves the HIV prevention workforce’s skills, partnerships, and organizational capacity. | HIV/AIDS |
| 2026-10-05 | Unaccompanied Alien Child Health Forms | HHS/ACF | ORR is proposing to expand sharing of identifiable health information about unaccompanied children with DHS when children are selected for repatriation, including diagnoses, medications, disabilities and accommodations, and health-related travel restrictions. The proposal also expands and restructures health information collected through ORR medical and dental forms. ORR says the sharing is intended to support continuity of care, but the notice does not itself specify that children must consent before their health information is provided to DHS; a separate July proposal retains an explicit consent requirement for sharing mental-health information. | Immigration |
| 2026-10-05 | Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program ORR-3 Report and ORR-4 Report | HHS/ACF | ORR is proposing to eliminate youth self-reported outcome measures from the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors program, replacing them with provider-reported assessments. The proposal also consolidates multiple follow-up reports into a single termination report and eliminates certain report types and questions. | Immigration |
| 2026-09-25 | Mental Health Assessment Form and Onsite Health Intervention Form | ACF | ORR is revising health forms for unaccompanied children in federal custody by combining separate tuberculosis and other health-intervention forms and streamlining the Mental Health Assessment Form. ORR is also expanding the stated use of the data to permit sharing identifying and health information with DHS when a child with ongoing medical needs is selected for repatriation, including diagnoses, medications, quarantine needs, accommodations, and travel restrictions; the child’s consent would be requested before mental-health information is shared. | Immigration |
| 2026-09-21 | DHS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Complaint and Privacy Waiver Form | DHS | DHS is seeking to continue its form for submitting complaints about civil-rights and civil-liberties violations involving immigration enforcement, detention, airport screening, disaster programs, and other DHS activities. Although the notice labels the collection a reinstatement “without change,” the prior form expressly identifies gender identity as a protected category, while the notice omits it and instead lists “sex” twice; this may be a drafting error, but it also raises concern that DHS intends to remove gender-identity discrimination from the complaint form without acknowledging a program change. The older form also expressly assures access to interpreters, translated forms, and complaints in languages other than English, making the absence of a proposed form especially important for assessing whether those protections remain. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-09-21 | Transformed—Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) | HHS/CMS | CMS is revising T-MSIS, the national beneficiary- and claims-level Medicaid and CHIP database, to support three changes. States will report updated immigration-status information and whether coverage ended because of a status change or failed verification. States must also report monthly whether adults subject to the Medicaid work requirement met the 80-hour standard, their qualifying activities and exemptions, and whether they were disenrolled for noncompliance. Finally, CMS will add a code separately identifying per-member-per-month home-health payments, which are currently grouped under “other,” to improve oversight of those programs. | Healthcare |
| 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 | 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 |
| 2026-09-18 | 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 |
| 2026-09-16 | 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 |