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2026-10-05 USDA and Treasury Data Matching Agreement USDA USDA is establishing a new department-wide matching program with Treasury’s Do Not Pay system to identify, prevent, and recover allegedly improper payments across a sweeping range of USDA programs. The program covers more than 100 agriculture, nutrition, rural housing and development, disaster assistance, conservation, and grant programs, and can compare identifying information about beneficiaries, borrowers, grantees, contractors, producers, landowners, and others receiving federal funds against federal eligibility databases. A potential match cannot by itself establish ineligibility or trigger adverse action; USDA must independently verify the information before taking further action. Waste, Fraud, and Abuse (WFA)
2026-10-05 Energy and Jobs Survey DOE DOE is substantially revising its annual survey of employment and workforce characteristics across the energy sector. The new survey adds information on AI’s workforce effects, environmental-compliance jobs, occupations, recruitment barriers, apprenticeships, and workforce partnerships, while eliminating detailed occupation-level wage and benefit questions. DOE is also “streamlining” demographic reporting: employers would report only the seven minimum federal race and ethnicity categories rather than detailed racial and ethnic groups, which DOE says would reduce burden and produce more reliable data because employers may not maintain detailed information and subgroup counts may be too small to publish. The survey will continue collecting race and ethnicity, gender, age, disability, veteran status, education, and union coverage to analyze the composition of the energy workforce. Labor/Employment
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
2026-10-09 Application for Disability Compensation Benefits VA VA is substantially simplifying the application veterans use to seek disability compensation, cutting Form 21-526EZ from 15 pages to five and estimating that it will take about 15 rather than 25 minutes to complete. The redesign removes most detailed instructions and directs applicants to online guidance, eliminates several duplicative or nonessential questions, and simplifies reporting of medical treatment and service information. VA is also eliminating the form’s dedicated section on toxic and other military exposures, which it says caused confusion and administrative burden; veterans would instead describe any relevant exposure, event, or injury as part of the explanation for each disability they claim. The revised form also adds a way for veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness to identify themselves and request priority processing. Veterans
2026-10-09 Business Trends and Outlook Survey DOC/Census Census is proposing several additions to the Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS), its high-frequency survey of U.S. businesses and economic conditions. Census would repeat and revise a supplemental set of questions about businesses’ use of artificial intelligence and add permanent questions measuring use of generative AI and AI’s effects on both existing employment and new hiring. It would also add a new question measuring businesses’ uncertainty about future conditions. Census is exploring whether to publish AI-related data more frequently than annually as businesses’ use of the technology changes Economy
2026-10-09 Application for D.I.C., Survivors Pension, and/or Accrued Benefits VA VA is substantially simplifying the application used by surviving spouses and children to apply for Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC), Survivors Pension, and accrued veterans' benefits, cutting Form 21P-534EZ from 20 pages to seven and reducing its estimated completion time from 40 to 25 minutes. The redesign removes or consolidates some questions and cuts nine pages of instructions down to one, directing applicants to online resources for more detailed information about eligibility and required evidence. The revised form continues to collect detailed information needed to determine benefits, including family relationships and, for Survivors Pension, income, assets, medical and end-of-life expenses, and costs for in-home or residential care. Veterans
2026-10-13 Decennial Census of the Population of Americans; Proposed Residence Criteria and Proposed Regulations for Demographic Questions DOC/Census The Census Bureau is proposing sweeping changes to the 2030 Census that would fundamentally change both who is counted for political representation and what demographic information the census collects. Most significantly, Census would exclude from the population used to apportion seats in Congress anyone who is neither a U.S. citizen nor a lawful permanent resident, including undocumented immigrants and many people lawfully living in the country on temporary statuses. Census would determine immigration status using administrative records from across the federal government and other sources, and is also considering adding a legal-status question to the census questionnaire. The rule would separately prohibit the decennial census from asking about race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation, eliminating the race and ethnicity data historically used for redistricting, civil-rights enforcement, research, and allocation of public resources. Census says it could continue collecting demographic information through the American Community Survey and obtaining it from administrative records. The proposal would also substantially increase Census's reliance on tax and other administrative records to determine where people should be counted. Census
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
2026-10-14 Petition To Remove the Conditions on Residence DHS/USCIS USCIS is revising Form I-751, which conditional permanent residents who obtained status through marriage use to request removal of the conditions on their permanent residence. USCIS has not provided information in this notice explaining what is changing on the form. Immigration
2026-10-15 IDEA Part B State Performance Plan (SPP) and Annual Performance Report (APR) ED ED is reducing federal reporting requirements used to monitor outcomes and racial disparities for students with disabilities under IDEA. Among other changes, ED is eliminating two indicators that track racial disparities in long-term suspensions and expulsions and eliminating a separate indicator examining whether racial and ethnic groups are disproportionately identified within particular disability categories. ED is also removing requirements that states analyze whether parent-engagement and post-school-outcomes survey respondents are demographically representative. Commenters warned that the changes could reduce transparency and make disparities harder to identify; ED emphasized that states remain legally responsible for examining racial disparities and can continue many of these analyses themselves, even though they will no longer be required through the federal performance-reporting system Disability
2026-10-15 Consolidated State Performance Report ED ED is reducing the information states must report through the Consolidated State Performance Report, its annual collection used to monitor federal K-12 education programs. The changes eliminate several reporting requirements, including some information about funding for English learners and programs serving neglected, "delinquent," and at-risk youth, while consolidating other reporting. In response to concerns about losing information, ED repeatedly said that some of the removed data will continue to be collected or monitored elsewhere, including through EDFacts and program monitoring, while retaining several requirements after commenters warned that eliminating them would reduce transparency and accountability. Education
2026-10-15 IDEA Part C State Performance Plan (SPP) and Annual Performance Report (APR) ED ED is revising states’ required reporting on early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities under IDEA Part C. Among the changes, ED is eliminating a requirement that states analyze whether families responding to surveys about their involvement in early intervention services are demographically representative of the children enrolled in the program. Commenters warned that the requirement had pushed states to improve representation and helped identify underserved communities; ED responded that states can continue conducting demographic representativeness analyses on their own, even though the federal government will no longer require them. The revisions also replace “gender” with “sex” in sampling instructions and make several other changes to state performance reporting. Disability
2026-10-15 State and Treasury Data Matching Program DOD DOD is updating its Privacy Act system covering civilian employee workplace-injury and workers’ compensation records. The changes expand and clarify the types of information maintained, including medical, injury, employment, benefits, and claims information, and update how records may be shared with agencies and other entities involved in administering or investigating workers’ compensation claims. Waste, Fraud, and Abuse (WFA)
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
2026-10-19 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 Annual Employee Survey OPM OPM is seeking approval for the new Annual Employee Survey (AES) that will replace the government-wide Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) structure. Under OPM's earlier proposal, agencies will now administer their own employee surveys rather than participate in one centrally administered FEVS, while reporting results from just 10 required questions to OPM for government-wide comparison. Agencies can ask additional questions, but those collections will be agency-specific, reducing the standardized data available to compare employee experiences across agencies and over time. The change follows OPM's cancellation of the 2025 FEVS and criticism that decentralizing and shrinking the common survey will make it harder to assess government-wide workplace conditions and hold agencies accountable. Federal Government
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
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