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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-30 | Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker: H-2A Classification | DHS/USCIS | This form is used by an employer to petition USCIS for a worker to come temporarily to the United States as a nonimmigrant to perform agricultural services or labor in the H-2A classification. The listing indicates that changes are being made to the form, but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Immigration |
| 2026-03-30 | National Special Education Spending Study | ED | This new study will produce estimates for what is spent on special education services for students with disabilities (SWDs), both overall and by disability category, including expenditures made by states, districts, and schools. The NSSES also will provide policymakers and special education administrators with an up-to-date understanding of the key factors that influence special education spending, what this spending pays for, and to what extent federal appropriations from the IDEA cover special education spending. | Education |
| 2026-03-30 | Registration Requirements for Financial Assistance Recipients | GSA | This set of forms are used by applicants and recipients of Federal financial assistance to register in the System for Award Management (SAM) and maintain an active SAM registration with current information. GSA is making unspecified changes to the system to align with DOJ's "Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination" and the EO on "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity." | Federal Funding |
| 2026-03-30 | Survey to Promote Resources and Opportunities for aUtistic Teens and young adults (SPROUT) | HHS/CDC | SPROUT will survey SEED cohort members and their caregivers to better understand: the healthcare utilization of, service and support needs of, and impact of co-occurring conditions on autistic people and their families; and the educational, social, and/or vocational needs and experiences of autistic adolescents and young adults | Healthcare |
| 2026-04-03 | Status of Forces Active-Duty Survey (SOFS-A) | DOD | The SOFS-A is an annual Department wide large-scale survey of active-duty members that is used in evaluating existing policies and programs, establishing baseline measures before implementing new policies and programs, and monitoring the progress of existing policies/programs. The survey assesses topics such as financial well-being, retention intention, stress, tempo, readiness, nutrition, and suicide awareness. It's unclear from the listing if any changes are being made to the survey. | Military |
| 2026-04-03 | Safe Access for Victims' Economic Security Data Collection for Safety in Child Support Program Research | HHS/ACF | The SAVES program aims to increase safe access to child support, parenting time, and establishment of parentage services for survivors of DV. Overall, the project will assess the experiences of survivors and support personnel in the SAVES program. Survivor interviews and surveys will help ACF understand how safety concerns—such as the risk of re-engagement with an abusive partner, fear of retaliation, concerns about personal information being shared, or negative experiences with legal or court processes—affect survivors' decisions to engage with or avoid the child support system. | Child Welfare |
| 2026-04-07 | Report of Terms of Credit Card Plans | CFPB | The forms in this package collect data on credit card pricing and availability. CFPB is making a number of changes to the methodology of the survey component of this collection, including expanding the sampling frame beyond the approximately 700 credit card issuers already in its Collect system to about 2,200 banks and credit unions with credit card balances exceeding $1 million. CFPB is considering a number of other methodological changes that are outlined in the listing. | Economic Justice |
| 2026-04-10 | Annual Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey | DOE | EIA has fielded the Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey since 1988, but because of the rapidly evolving energy-intensive economic landscape, EIA is proposing to initiate a narrower but more frequent data collection. The new survey narrows information collected from 250 to 60 items, but is fielded yearly. Information collected will be used to produce aggregate statistics on the energy consumption of the manufacturing sector, including energy purchases, expenditures, transfers in and shipments out, onsite generation and both fuel and nonfuel use of five widely used energy sources. | Energy |
| 2026-04-10 | Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP) | DOL | The WRP is a recruitment and referral program that connects students with disabilities to opportunities for federal employment. The listing indicates that DOL is making substantive changes to this collection, but it's unclear from the listing what those changes are. | Disability |
| 2026-04-10 | Rural Health Network Development Planning Program Performance Improvement and Measurement System | HHS/HRSA | The Network Planning Program supports 1 year of planning and brings together key parts of a rural health care delivery system, particularly those entities that may not have collaborated in the past, to establish and/or improve local capacity to strengthen rural community health interventions and enhance care coordination. HRSA uses the data collected on this form to support program compliance, inform rural needs, guide the delivery of technical assistance, and shape federal program decisions. HRSA is making several changes to this reporting form, including removing questions on infrastructure, collaboration, and sustainability. | Healthcare |
| 2026-04-13 | Contingent Work Supplement to the Current Population Survey | DOL | 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. Proposed changes to the digital labor platform work portion of the survey will provide more information about digital platform work that might be of short duration or intermittent and will help to understand how many days per week and hours per day were typically spent on work obtained through an app or website and what type of work was done. | Labor/Employment |
| 2026-04-13 | National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife Watching | DOI | The FHWAR is a comprehensive survey of anglers, hunters, and wildlife watchers that provides up-to-date information on the uses and demands for wildlife-related recreation resources and a basis for developing and evaluating programs and projects to meet existing and future needs. DOI is making a number of changes to the survey, primarily adding in content including questions that were removed in the 2022 iteration. | Climate/Environment |
| 2026-04-13 | Drive-Mode Design Best Practices | DOT | This study will examine how different drive mode implementations, which limit phone functionality and simplify the human-machine interface, affect driver attention and performance compared to standard interfaces. | Transportation |
| 2026-04-13 | Distraction: Modern Voice Command Interfaces | DOT | This study is part of an effort to understand the effects of currently or near-to-deployed (modern) voice command interfaces (VCIs) in vehicles. The research compares multiple tasks across prominent VCI systems to identify both positive and negative effects on cognitive workload and distraction. | Health and Safety |
| 2026-04-14 | 2027-2028 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) | ED | The FAFSA collects the data necessary to determine a student's eligibility to receive Title IV, HEA program assistance. The listing indicates that changes are being made to the form, but does not clarify what those changes will be. Notably, ED is reporting a burden decrease of over 4 million hours, indicating that changes to the form may be signficant. | Education |
| 2026-04-14 | 2024 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) Data Match | HHS/ACF | Data collected through this program are used to study and report on the impact of LIHEAP on income eligible and recipient households. For the upcoming iteration of this program, ACF proposes to eliminate eight data fields compared to the prior data request, including Household name, household telephone number, date of heating assistance, date of cooling assistance, date of crisis assistance, other assistance awarded, amount of other assistance, and date of other assistance. | Energy |
| 2026-04-14 | Housing Choice Voucher Program and Tribal HUD-VASH | HUD | These forms are used by public housing agencies to apply for funding to assist very low-income families to lease or purchase housing. They collect data on participant eligibility, unit acceptability, lease and housing assistance payments, and budget and payment documentation. HUD is making changes to nearly all the forms in this package, some of which implement changes to the law (such as integrating a utility flat fee option or allowing a waiver of owner responsibility for tenant-caused housing quality deficiencies), while others are changing the forms to align with Administration priorities like revised perspectives on who is covered by civil rights protections or whether certain classes of people (e.g., non-citizens) can qualify for housing programs. | Housing |