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Showing 19 of 59 results
| Due Date | Collection | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2026-10-19 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 2026-10-19 | 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 | 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 | Application for Cancellation of Removal for Certain Permanent Residents (Form EOIR-42A); and Application for Cancellation of Removal and Adjustment of Status for Certain Nonpermanent Residents (Form EOIR-42B) | DOJ/EOIR | DOJ's immigration courts are revising the forms used by people in removal proceedings to seek cancellation of removal, eliminating some information EOIR says is not relevant to judges’ eligibility or discretionary decisions. The revisions also broaden a question about how applicants entered the U.S., require applicants to sign and affirm the application when filing rather than later before an immigration judge, and revise instructions and questions to more closely track statutory language. | Immigration |
| 2026-10-19 | National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) | HHS/CDC | CDC is seeking approval to continue the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) in 2027 and begin a major redesign in 2028. The redesigned survey would shift from primarily interviewer-administered collection to a mixed-mode approach that asks households to respond online or by mail first, with in-person follow-up for some nonresponders, while substantially shortening and simplifying the questionnaires. The change would eliminate many detailed health questions currently collected annually and end the fixed schedule for rotating questions, while retaining core measures of health, disability, insurance coverage and access to care. | Healthcare |
| 2026-10-20 | Consolidated Annual Report (CAR) | ED | ED is proposing additional revisions to states’ annual reporting under the Perkins career and technical education program, including changes to financial reporting and updates to align performance data with the new National Career Clusters Framework. The new framework reorganizes CTE programs from 16 to 14 career clusters, which could affect how program outcomes are classified and compared over time. ED also proposes to simplify financial reporting, although the notice does not clearly identify what information would no longer be collected, making it difficult to assess whether the change would reduce transparency or program oversight. | Education |
| 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 |
| 2026-10-20 | Faculty Loan Repayment Program | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is revising its Faculty Loan Repayment Program, which provides loan repayment to health professionals from disadvantaged backgrounds who serve as faculty at health-professions schools. HRSA would replace its “disadvantaged background” assessment with a “vulnerable background” assessment focused specifically on geographic/educational and economic disadvantage. Indicators would include attending under-resourced schools, being a first-generation college student, experiencing educational language barriers, low family income, Pell Grant eligibility, or family receipt of public benefits. The revision also adds forms for employer loan-repayment obligations and twice-yearly verification of participants’ employment. | Education |
| 2026-10-20 | Understanding Participant Experiences in SNAP E&T | USDA | USDA is proposing a new qualitative study of how SNAP participants experience work requirements and Employment and Training (E&T) programs. Researchers will conduct in-depth and participant-led “photovoice” interviews in four states, including two with mandatory E&T and two with voluntary programs, examining whether participants understand work requirements, their experiences accessing training and services, and barriers they encounter while navigating SNAP E&T. USDA says the findings will inform recommendations for improving customer service and connecting participants with employment and training services. | Food Access |
| 2026-10-20 | HEA Title II Report Cards on State Teacher Credentialing and Preparation | ED | ED is revising the annual Title II reports used to collect and publish information about teacher preparation programs and state teacher credentialing systems. The reports collect information including teacher-preparation enrollment and demographics, completion rates, credentialing requirements and assessment pass rates, teacher shortages, and programs identified as low-performing. ED says the revision will remove several items it considers “no longer needed” and update reporting instructions to reflect the Department’s current organizational structure, but the notice does not identify which data elements are being eliminated. | Education |
| 2026-10-20 | Medicaid Drug Use Review (DUR) Program | HHS/CMS | CMS is renewing its Medicaid Drug Use Review (DUR) data collection, part of a longstanding program requiring state Medicaid agencies and managed care plans to analyze prescription claims for potentially inappropriate or medically unnecessary care, fraud, abuse, and unusual prescribing, dispensing, or patient behavior. States use claims data to identify prescribing patterns and potential problems and may intervene with individual physicians or pharmacists; they also report annually to CMS on their DUR activities. The collection has legitimate patient-safety and program-integrity purposes, but the breadth of the underlying claims analysis is notable as HHS increasingly uses claims data and fraud authorities to scrutinize politically targeted forms of care. The same infrastructure could potentially be used to identify and investigate providers or prescribing patterns involving gender-affirming care or other disfavored treatments, although this notice does not itself propose such targeting or create a new prescription-claims database. | Healthcare |
| 2026-10-26 | Application for Competitive Grant Program | DOC/NTIA | NTIA is revising the application for the Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program, which funds projects addressing barriers to broadband adoption, digital skills, and access to connectivity. Notably, NTIA has renamed the program the “Competitive Grant Program” in this notice and removed “digital equity” from its description, even though the underlying statute still establishes the Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program to advance digital equity and inclusion among specified underserved populations. NTIA identifies this as a revision of the existing collection but has not yet published the revised forms, so it is not yet clear what substantive application requirements may also change. | Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-26 | Nondiscrimination in Federal Financial Assistance Programs | GSA | GSA is proposing unspecified revisions to two forms used to collect civil-rights compliance information from state agencies that receive and distribute federal surplus property. The forms collect information on discrimination complaints and findings and accessibility for people with disabilities, but GSA does not explain what it proposes to change and has not made the revised forms available with the notice. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-10-27 | National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Programs | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is revising National Health Service Corps loan repayment applications to replace “disadvantaged background” with “vulnerable background” when determining eligibility for a statutory funding priority. The new framework emphasizes educational, geographic, and economic vulnerability, using indicators such as poverty, first-generation college attendance, under-resourced schools, language barriers, disability, and rural or isolated communities. The change continues HRSA’s broader shift away from “disadvantaged” terminology toward more specific socioeconomic and geographic measures of vulnerability. | Economic Justice |
| 2026-10-27 | 2027 National Training, Education, and Workforce Survey | NSF | NSF is reinstating and substantially expanding the National Training, Education, and Workforce Survey for 2027, combining it with two longstanding surveys of college graduates and doctorate recipients to create a single source of data on Americans’ education, training, employment, and pathways into science, engineering, and skilled technical work. The consolidated questionnaire has been tested, but the notice does not provide enough detail to assess how individual questions or measures will change. | Education |
| 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 |