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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:
- Send an email to the point of contact for that survey or form
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-06 | Verification of Eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage Under PPACA | HHS/CMS | CMS is renewing its data matching program with the VA to verify whether veterans seeking Marketplace coverage have qualifying VA health coverage, which can affect eligibility for premium tax credits and cost-sharing assistance. CMS will send identifying information, including Social Security number and sex, and VA will return coverage dates; matches must be verified before assistance is denied or reduced. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-08-06 | Annual Moving To Work (MTW) Plan and Report Elements | HUD | HUD is revising annual reporting for newer Moving to Work housing agencies by eliminating many general questions and all activity-specific questions about policies such as work requirements, rent changes, and time-limited assistance. Agencies would also stop reporting their own evaluations, reducing standardized information available to HUD, residents, and the public about how these policies operate and affect families. | Housing |
| 2026-08-05 | Projects for Assistance in Transition From Homelessness (PATH) Program Annual Report Manual | HUD | HUD is revising its annual report for the PATH homelessness-services program to remove the gender question, add a sex question, and change “Hispanic/Latina/e/o” to “Hispanic/Latina/o,” eliminating the gender-neutral term Latine. | Homelessness |
| 2026-08-05 | Verification of Eligibility for Insurance Affordability Programs Under PPACA | CMS | CMS is establishing a data-matching program with the Department of Veterans Affairs to verify whether veterans applying for Marketplace or other health-coverage assistance are enrolled in VA health care and to use VA disability information in determining eligibility for subsidies. CMS will send identity information, including Social Security number and sex, and receive VA enrollment dates and detailed disability ratings; matches must be verified before benefits are denied or reduced. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-08-05 | Public Health/Public Safety Strategies to Reduce Drug Overdose | HHS/CDC | CDC is revising its data collection on public health and public safety overdose-prevention strategies to remove the objective of identifying disparities in access to, or the effectiveness of, those strategies. The collection will continue to examine program implementation and ways to improve overdose responses, but will no longer expressly assess whether interventions reach or work equally well for different populations. CDC says only that the disparities objective is “no longer needed.” | Healthcare |
| 2026-08-03 | RFI on Family Friendly Transit | DOT | In this RFI, DOT asks a number of questions about data that is available for (or that should be available for) better understanding the availability and accessibility of public transportation. For example, the RFI asks for input on "the extent to which transit agencies collect and use data regarding accessibility of transit systems beyond the minimum ADA requirements;" as well as on "the extent to which agencies make real-time service data available to customers to support trip planning, including service disruptions." | Transportation |
| 2026-08-03 | ORR Annual Survey of Refugees | HHS/ACF | This survey collects nationally representative information from refugees who arrived within the previous five years to support congressional reporting, program planning, policymaking, and budgeting. ORR is testing a future online version intended to reduce burden, but does not seem to be making any changes to the survey at this time. | Immigration |
| 2026-08-03 | 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 |
| 2026-08-03 | National Survey of Syringe Services Programs (NSSSP) | CDC | This survey asks SSPs about operational characteristics and services, funding resources, community relations, and key operational successes and challenges. The listing indicates that the survey is being revised, but no supplemental materials are available to help us identify what changes are being made. | Drug Use |
| 2026-08-03 | GSAR: Acquisition of Information and Communication Technology | GSA | GSA is proposing a new contract clause for federal purchases of large language model AI systems, focused on safeguarding government data, clarifying data ownership, requiring privacy and security controls, and flowing those requirements down to AI developers, operators, integrators, and service providers. Of note, the clause would require contractors to follow “unbiased AI principles,” including truthfulness, neutrality, and avoiding “partisan or ideological judgments." | Science and Technology |
| 2026-08-03 | 2026 Mandatory Data Collection for Incarcerated People's Communications Services | FCC | FCC is proposing to revise their mandatory data collection from prison and jail communications providers, which the agency will use to set permanent rate caps for phone and video calls by incarcerated people. The proposal would streamline earlier reporting. Notably, it makes changes to how it treats provider “safety and security” costs, facility payments, payment-processing costs, and other expenses. Historically, including more of those costs in rate-setting ultimately makes communication more expensive for incarcerated people and their families. | Criminal Justice |
| 2026-08-03 | Personnel Management in Agencies: Strategic Human Capital Management | OPM | In addition to making many other changes to federal workforce planning and budgeting, this proposed rule would reduce the common questions required on the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey from 16 to 10 and allow agencies greater discretion over what survey results they publish. The changes could make it harder to compare employee experiences across agencies and over time, while reducing public transparency into federal workforce conditions. | Federal Government |
| 2026-08-03 | Credit Alert Verification Reporting System | HUD | This notice establishes a new data-matching program under which SBA will provide HUD with information on people associated with delinquent or defaulted SBA disaster and business loans. HUD will add the records to a government-wide database used by agencies and approved lenders to screen applicants for federal loans; any match must be verified before an application is denied or other adverse action is taken. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-08-03 | Autism CARES Initiative Evaluation | HHS/HRSA | This evaluation measures outputs and outcomes across program components, identifies promising practices and implementation facilitators; assesses how investments function as a system to advance shared outcomes; and provides annual, decision-ready findings for HRSA leadership and project officers. HRSA is revising the evaluation by eliminating one-time, grantee-specific, semi-structured interviews and replacing them with semi-structured, time-limited virtual focus groups designed to elicit cross-program and systems-level insights. | Health and Safety |
| 2026-07-31 | Shaping the Future of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics | DOT | BTS is seeking public input on how to modernize its data products, fill gaps in national transportation data, and make its tools easier to use, including through more timely indicators, new data sources, more geographic or demographic detail, APIs, and machine-readable formats. | Transportation |
| 2026-07-30 | Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) | HHS/ACF | This listing implements a 2024 rule change expanding state reporting on the Indian Child Welfare Act. Beginning with children entering foster care in 2028, states will collect more detailed information about whether ICWA protections were followed, including inquiries into a child’s Tribal status, notice to Tribes and parents, transfers to Tribal court, efforts to prevent family separation, and compliance with foster-care and adoptive-placement preferences. | Child Welfare |
| 2026-07-29 | Rural Health Care Coordination Program Performance Improvement Measures | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is revising the performance measures for the Rural Health Care Coordination Program, which supports rural care-coordination strategies focused on heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, and maternal health. The changes are fairly limited. Commenters asked HRSA to add stronger measures on behavioral health, substance use disorder services, demographic detail, workforce characteristics, upstream drivers of health, and EHR interoperability; HRSA did not appear to add those changes now, saying instead that it will consider them in future measure development. In the supplemental materials, HRSA justifies collecting race/ethnicity data by saying it needs the data to assess whether projects are meeting the needs of the populations served. | Healthcare |
| 2026-07-28 | Health Benefits Election Form | OPM | Federal employees use this form to enroll in or change enrollment in federal health insurance. Through this listing, OPM is formalizing changes to questions about gender and swapping out the phrase "biological child" for "natural child." They also indicate that additional changes to the form may be made "to facilitate verification of eligibility or to provide revised instructions" in response to a forthcoming regulation on verification requirements for family member coverage. | Healthcare |
| 2026-07-27 | Direct Loan Program Promissory Notes and related forms | ED | ED is revising these forms to reflect new student-loan rules, including new annual, aggregate, and lifetime borrowing limits; reduced loan limits for students enrolled less than full time; the phase-out of Grad PLUS loans; new repayment plan options; and the removal of SAVE-related provisions. Public comment feedback was incorporated: the Department added clearer language on IBR interest capitalization, lifetime loan limits, enrollment-based limits, PLUS loan cross-references, and the fact that payments in the Tiered Standard Plan do not count toward PSLF or TEPSLF. | Education |
| 2026-07-27 | Consolidated State Performance Report Renewal | ED | This reporting tool collects information from states related to the performance and monitoring activities of programs under ESSA and the McKinney-Vento Act. ED is making significant changes to the collection, including eliminating questions on Assessment waivers, Title III, Part A allocation timeline, McKinney-Vento and ARP Homeless, Certification requirement for OME, Postsecondary URLs, Title I, Part D, and Funding Transferability for State and Local Education Agencies; and combining the CSPR I and II into a single CSPR collection. | Education |