Take Action!
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. DataWatch — 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 | Summary | Main Issues | New/Renew | Agency | Respondents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-18 | American Community Survey (ACS) Methods Panel Tests | This notice describes the intended research to be included in the ACS methods panel test, which will test a number of methodology changes as well as new content on sexual orientation. Gender identity question testing has been cancelled. | LGBTQI+ | Revision | Census | Individuals and households |
| 2025-05-14 | Privacy Act of 1974; Exempting a System of Records From Certain Requirements | This is actually a final rule - cross referenced on FedWatch page. Treasury is exempting the IRS Insider Risk Management SOR from certain provisions of the Privacy Act. Basically, many provisions of that law allow people to know when their record is shared with another agency, allow amendment or appeal of their records, allow them to know if they're in a record, etc. This rule provides exemptions to all those provisions on the grounds that knowing they're in the record could impede an investigation against a person. | Privacy | Revision | Treasury | N/A |
| 2025-05-13 | Recognition of a Non-Profit Religious, Charitable, Social Service, or Similar Organization | This information collection will allow an organization to request and renew recognition of the organization to appear before EOIR. Changes to the form include These changes include revisions to the form's Privacy Act notice; addition of the expiration date for OMB approval on the form; updates to the address to which applications can be submitted; and addition of an alternative method by which applications can be submitted. | Immigration | Revision | DOJ | Non-profit institutions |
| 2025-05-13 | Accreditation of Non-Attorney Representative | This information collection will allow an organization to seek accreditation or renewal of accreditation of a non-attorney representative to appear before EOIR. Changes to the form include revisions to the form's Privacy Act notice; addition of the expiration date for OMB approval on the form; updates to the address to which applications can be submitted; and addition of an alternative method by which applications can be submitted. | Immigration | Revision | DOJ | Non-profit institutions |
| 2025-05-12 | Matching Program/HHS | This notice announces a new matching program with HHS's Office of Child Support Services (OCSS). Under this matching program, OCSS will provide SSA with quarterly wage (QW) and unemployment insurance (UI) information located in the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) to allow SSA to determine eligibility of applicants for Extra Help (low-income subsidy assistance) under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003. This agreement assists SSA in determining eligibility of applicants for Extra Help, redetermining eligibility of existing Extra Help beneficiaries during periodic screening, and administering the Extra Help program. | Public Benefits | New | SSA | N/A |
| 2025-05-12 | Alien Registration Form and Evidence of Registration | This IFR amends DHS regulations to designate a new registration form for undocumented people to comply with statutory registration and fingerprinting provisions. Undocumented people who are subject to registration requirements of the INA who have not yet registered may use this registration form to satisfy their statutory obligations. This IFR also amends DHS regulations to designate additional documentation that may serve as evidence of registration. | Immigration | New | DHS | Individuals |
| 2025-05-12 | Matching Program/IRS | N/A | Public Benefits | New | SSA | N/A |
| 2025-05-09 | mySocial Security—Security Authentication PIN | To mitigate fraud concerns, in April 2025, SSA will increase the level of identity proofing needed for customers to make payment method changes during phone interactions. While necessary to protect the public and the integrity of SSA's programs, this limits the accessibility of the phone as a service channel for claims filed over the phone that will require identity proofing, such as post-entitlement/post-eligibility direct deposit changes, and certain claims which SSA flags as anomalous. To bridge this gap, SSA developed a hybrid identity proofing process called the Security Authentication PIN (SAP) that will provide identity-proofing parity with our online modality, as well as in-person verification. Utilizing the SAP process will provide the necessary identity verification to allow payment method changes to these flagged claims and existing records via phone or in person, while ensuring fraud protection through verification of the identity of the individual prior to accessing or revising their account. | Public Benefits | New | SSA | Individuals |
| 2025-05-05 | Collection of Social Media Identifier(s) on Immigration Forms | This notice proposes the collection of social media identifiers on a number of immigration forms. According to the listing, "This data will be collected from certain populations of individuals on applications for immigration-related benefits and is necessary for the enhanced identity verification, vetting and national security screening and, inspection conducted by USCIS and required under the E.O." | Immigration | Revision | USCIS | Individuals or households |
| 2025-05-02 | Collection of Certain Information on Immigration Forms | This notice proposes the collection of new consistent fields of information on a number of immigration forms for "enhanced screening and vetting standards and procedures to enable USCIS to assess an alien's eligibility to receive an immigration-related benefit. This data collection also is used to help validate an applicant's identity and to determine whether such grant of a benefit poses a security or public-safety risk to the United States." The new fields includ demographic information and information about family members. | Immigration | Revision | USCIS | Individuals or households |
| 2025-04-30 | National Survey of Children's Health | NCHS is used to produce national and state-based estimates on the health and well-being of children, their families, and their communities as well as estimates of the prevalence and impact of children with special health care needs. It is unclear from the listing what elements of the survey are being revised. | Health and Safety | Revision | Census | Individuals and households |
| 2025-04-28 | TRICARE Competitive Plans Demonstration (CPD) | This demonstration project will assist the DHA in evaluating whether delivery of the TRICARE Prime health care option under the framework of the CPDs will result in improvements in health care quality for TRICARE Prime beneficiaries and/or a reduction in health care spending for the DoD. This program is intended to determine if the presence of local, regional or national level CPD-like health plans will generate beneficial competition between the CPD-like plans and the regional MCSCs for the enrollment of TRICARE beneficiaries. | Healthcare | New | DOD | N/A |
| 2025-04-28 | Number of Law Enforcement Employees as of October 31 | This collection requests demographics associated with the number of full and part-time law enforcement employees, both officers and civilians, from federal, state, county, city, university/college, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies in order for the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program to serve as the national clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of police employee data and to publish these statistics in Crime in the Nation and on the Crime Data Explorer. | Criminal Justice | Renewal | DOJ | SLT governments |
| 2025-04-28 | National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 | The primary objective of the survey is to study the transition from schooling to the establishment of careers and families. The longitudinal focus of this survey requires information to be collected from the same individuals over many years in order to trace their education, training, work experience, fertility, income, and program participation. This revision includes new questions on platform work, whether and which accommodations are offered by employers, clarifications on the nature of work arrangements, respondents' expectations for retirement and collect broad measures of disability. In addition, fewer questions will be asked about coronavirus and health behaviors. | Labor/Employment | Renewal | DOL | Individuals or households |
| 2025-04-25 | 2027 Farm to School Census | As part of the Farm to School Program's authorization, CFSD collects and disseminates information on farm to school activities throughout the country. The Census provides the only nationally representative data available on farm to school participation and activities in the United States. It also compiles detailed information about State- and school food authority (SFA)-level farm to school engagement. | Food Access | Renewal | USDA | SLT governments; businesses |
| 2025-04-23 | Survey of Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum for the Research Support Services for Employment of Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum (REYAAS) Project | This study (referred to as Research Support Services for Employment of Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum) will provide insightful data on the employment experiences of young adults on the autism spectrum, which policymakers and the autism community can use to inform program and policy changes that support the well-being of autistic people. | Disability | New | DOL | Individuals or households |
| 2025-04-21 | 2026 Government Units Survey | The Government Units Survey (GUS) is a part of the organizational component of the Census of Governments. The GUS is designed to collect information on the location and type of local governments and offices. | Public Sector | Renewal | Census | Townships and special district governments |
| 2025-04-16 | COVID-19 Recordkeeping and Reporting in Healthcare Standard | This notice requirements originally intended to assist both employers and employees in addressing the risk of occupational exposure to COVID-19. Specifically, OSHA found in 2021 that these requirements were necessary to address the grave danger to healthcare employees from transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the workplace, resulting in COVID-19. Note that On February 5, 2025, OSHA announced that until further notice it was not enforcing the requirement to establish, maintain, and provide copies of a COVID-19 log or to report COVID-19 fatalities and hospitalizations. OSHA intends to initiate a rulemaking to remove all of Subpart U, including those requirements. If OSHA removes subpart U the associated information collection request would become moot. | Health and Safety | Renewal | DOL | Private Sector |
| 2025-04-14 | Cancellation: 2026 Government Units Survey | This notice serves as a notification of the cancellation of the 2026 Government Units Survey. | Data Collection | Cancellation | Census | Governments |
| 2025-04-10 | Contingent Work Supplement to the Current Population Survey | The CWS questions focus on people with contingent jobs—those that people do not expect to last or that are temporary—and workers in alternative employment arrangements, such as independent contractors, on-call workers, temporary help agency workers, and workers provided by contract firms. There are also questions to identify digital labor platform workers, those who obtain work or pick tasks by using a digital labor platform mobile application (app) or website to directly connect them with customers or clients and arrange payment for the tasks | Labor/Employment | Renewal | DOL | SLT governments |