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| Due Date | Collection | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2026-09-21 | 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 | Security Threat Assessment for Individuals Applying for a Hazardous Materials Endorsement for a Commercial Driver's License | DHS/TSA | TSA is renewing the collection used to conduct security-threat assessments for commercial drivers seeking hazardous-materials endorsements, including extensive biographic information, immigration status, criminal history, and fingerprints. TSA is also implementing previously approved enrollment in the FBI’s Rap Back program, which replaces reliance on a one-time fingerprint background check with ongoing notifications to TSA when participating drivers’ fingerprints are associated with new criminal-history information. | Transportation |
| 2026-09-23 | Application To Restore Federal Firearms Rights (Relief From Federal Firearms Disabilities) | DOJ | DOJ is creating a new application for people and entities prohibited under federal law from possessing firearms to seek restoration of their federal firearms rights. The form implements DOJ’s newly finalized process for granting relief from federal firearms prohibitions, reviving a pathway that had effectively been unavailable for more than 30 years. DOJ estimates that approximately 330,000 people or entities will apply each year. | Gun Violence |
| 2026-09-23 | Modernizing Suspension and Debarment Rules | FCC | FCC is implementing new suspension and debarment requirements across programs including Lifeline, E-Rate, Rural Health Care, Telecommunications Relay Services, and the National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program. Participants will be required to disclose certain criminal or civil charges, convictions, federal exclusions, and recent terminations of government transactions, and to certify that contractors, subcontractors, consultants, and other downstream partners also comply with federal suspension and debarment rules. The FCC says it will use the information to identify fraud and other misconduct and determine whether applicants and other participants should be permitted to receive federal funds. | Waste, Fraud, and Abuse (WFA) |
| 2026-09-24 | CPS Civic Engagement and Volunteering Supplement | Census | Americorps and Census are seeking approval for the 2027 CPS Civic Engagement and Volunteering Supplement, which measures volunteering and other forms of civic participation. The 2027 questionnaire is unchanged from 2023 and 2025, although AmeriCorps is also clearing alternative wording for possible future internet self-response. Commenters urged AmeriCorps to restore more detailed questions about formal volunteering; AmeriCorps agreed the data would be valuable but said Census limits on supplement length prevent adding them now, and identified questions about types of volunteer organizations and activities as priorities for future rounds. | Civic Engagement |
| 2026-09-24 | DOD and HHS Matching Program | DOD | DOD and CMS are establishing a matching program to verify Medicare enrollment for military health system beneficiaries and determine their eligibility for TRICARE benefits. DoD will match identifying information for eligible beneficiaries against CMS Medicare records and use the results to update DEERS with current Medicare enrollment information. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-09-24 | ED and Treasury Matching Program | ED | ED is establishing an agency-wide matching program with Treasury’s Do Not Pay system to identify, prevent, and recover allegedly improper federal payments. ED will compare information about recipients and applicants for federal funds, including certain grant and scholarship recipients and people identified as having received overpayments, against federal databases used to verify payment and award eligibility, with matches potentially triggering additional review or recovery action. The program explicitly implements the administration’s “fraud, waste, and abuse” agenda and is part of a broader expansion of automated data matching to scrutinize eligibility for federal funds. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-09-24 | Title IV Loans Matching Program | ED | ED and SSA are establishing a matching program to identify student loan borrowers and TEACH Grant recipients whom SSA has determined have disabilities for which medical improvement is not expected and who may qualify for Total and Permanent Disability discharge. ED will use matched name, date of birth, Social Security number, and disability-status information to proactively notify eligible borrowers and automatically discharge their loans or obligations unless they opt out, reducing the need for borrowers to separately document their disability. | Disability |
| 2026-09-24 | NASA Complaint of Discrimination Form 1355 | NASA | NASA is revising its discrimination complaint form to remove gender-related reporting options and replace references to “gender identity” with “sex,” which NASA says aligns the form with current executive orders and federal requirements. The form continues to cover complaints based on sex, including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions. Other changes update contact, Privacy Act, and administrative information. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-09-25 | Reporting Portal for Civil Rights Violations | DOJ | Despite a Federal Register title incorrectly referring to the International Terrorism Victim Expense Reimbursement Program, DOJ is revising its online portal for reporting civil rights violations. Notably, the revised portal adds Second Amendment rights as a category of civil-rights complaints, reflecting DOJ’s unusual new treatment of alleged restrictions on gun ownership and carrying as a Civil Rights Division enforcement priority. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-09-25 | OPM and Treasury Data Sharing Agreement | OPM | OPM is establishing a new matching program with Treasury’s Do Not Pay system to verify continued eligibility for federal retirement benefits and identify and recover allegedly improper payments. OPM will compare records for federal retirees, survivors, and other beneficiaries against Do Not Pay databases as part of the administration’s broader “fraud, waste, and abuse” initiative. A database match cannot by itself result in benefits being denied, suspended, or recovered; OPM says it will independently verify matches and provide applicable notice and appeal rights before taking adverse action. | Data Sharing |
| 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 |
| 2026-09-28 | Data Elements for Bureau-Funded Schools | DOI/BIE | BIE is renewing its collection of student enrollment and educational-needs data from Bureau-funded schools, which is used to determine eligibility, support services, and allocate federal funding. The revision ends data collection for the Behavioral Health and Wellness Program because the program has concluded. A Tribal education organization urged stronger Tribal data ownership and governance, culturally relevant measures, consultation, and transparency about funding decisions; BIE largely responded by pointing to existing student-record privacy protections. | Education |
| 2026-09-28 | Change in Admission and Occupancy Requirements | HUD | HUD is renewing requirements for public housing agencies to maintain and make publicly available their written policies governing admissions and continued occupancy, including eligibility, rents, preferences, waiting lists, and other occupancy rules. The estimated number of respondents has declined because there are fewer active public housing agencies, rather than because HUD is reducing the information required. | Housing |
| 2026-09-28 | National and State Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSSCAW): Site Recruitment and Baseline Data Collection | HHS | HHS is launching a new cohort of the National and State Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, the federal government’s major longitudinal study of children and families involved with the child welfare system. The study will survey about 6,000 children and their caregivers in 10 states on physical and mental health, family economic well-being, service needs and receipt, experiences with the child welfare system, foster and kin caregiving, and children’s safety and stability, and will link survey responses with administrative and community-level data. | Child Welfare |
| 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 |
| 2026-10-05 | 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 |
| 2026-10-06 | 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 |