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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 2026-10-06 | 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 |
| 2026-10-05 | HIV Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) Program | HHS/CDC | CDC is proposing a new evaluation of the Public Health Infrastructure Grant program to examine how state, local, and territorial health departments used federal infrastructure funding and whether it improved workforce capacity, organizational systems, data modernization, and other core public-health capabilities. The evaluation will use surveys and interviews with grant recipients and selected partners to assess implementation, outcomes, and barriers. | HIV/AIDS |
| 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 | 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 |
| 2026-09-25 | 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 |
| 2026-09-21 | 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 | 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 |
| 2026-09-18 | Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Orders (M3) Survey | DOC/Census | The Census Bureau is seeking to continue, without changes, its monthly Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders Survey, which collects data from about 5,000 manufacturers on shipments, new and unfilled orders, and inventories to measure current industrial activity and future production. Paper reporting was phased out in January 2026, with responses now submitted online or by email. | Economy |
| 2026-09-18 | Survey of Housing Starts, Sales, and Completions | DOC/Census | The Census Bureau is seeking to continue, without changes, its monthly Survey of Housing Starts, Sales, and Completions, which collects information from builders and property owners on the timing, characteristics, sale, price, and financing of new residential construction. The survey produces federal statistics on housing starts, completions, and new-home sales; estimated reporting burden is increasing modestly because construction projects are taking longer to start, complete, and sell. | Housing |
| 2026-09-14 | Alaska Big Game Guide Use Survey | DOI/FWS | FWS is renaming the Alaska Guide Service Evaluation as the Alaska Big Game Guide Use Survey and removing questions identifying the outfitter and guide. It would also eliminate the entire demographic section, including questions about sex, race and ethnicity, age, residence, education, and household income, reducing the agency’s ability to assess who uses guided refuge services or whether experiences vary across groups. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-09-14 | Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Formula | HUD | HUD is seeking comment on possible changes to the formula used to allocate Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding, including proposals to rely less on SBA and FEMA data, base economic-development and infrastructure needs partly on housing damage, and establish different thresholds for metropolitan, rural, and Tribal areas. HUD will continue using its 2025 formula for 2023 and 2024 disasters while it develops a final rule. | Housing |
| 2026-09-14 | Campus Safety and Security Survey | ED | ED is revising the annual Campus Safety and Security Survey to collect statistics on hazing incidents reported to campus authorities or local police, as required by the Stop Campus Hazing Act. The data will be published alongside other campus crime and safety information. | Education |
| 2026-09-11 | Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) & Temporary Expanded PSLF (TEPSLF) Certification and Application | ED | ED is removing a new PSLF attestation that would have required nonprofits and other public-service employers to certify under penalty of perjury that they had not engaged in activities the administration deemed to have a “substantial illegal purpose.” The Department is withdrawing the language after a federal court vacated the underlying rule one day before it was to take effect, preserving PSLF eligibility for workers at organizations the administration might otherwise have disqualified. No other changes are being made to the form. | Education |
| 2026-09-11 | Maternal and Child Health Bureau Performance Measures for Discretionary Grant Information System | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is revising the reporting system used by Maternal and Child Health Bureau grantees, formalizing earlier changes that removed gender questions and LGBTQ+ response options; replaced “pregnant/postpartum persons” with “women”; eliminated a health-equity form and many references to DEI, disparities, underrepresented or marginalized groups, social determinants of health, and people with lived experience; and added “Child Health” and “Women’s Health” topic categories. The current notice also changes five forms to use “medically underserved” terminology and removes two training forms because the information is now collected elsewhere. | Healthcare |
| 2026-09-11 | Medical Monitoring Project (MMP) | HHS/CDC | CDC is revising the Medical Monitoring Project, its nationally representative study of adults diagnosed with HIV, after removing questions that identify transgender respondents and transgender sexual partners. The collection replaces sex assigned at birth, including an intersex option, with a binary male-or-female question; deletes gender identity questions; and limits questions about recent sexual partners to male or female, reducing CDC’s ability to measure HIV care, service needs, and outcomes among transgender people. | HIV/AIDS |
| 2026-09-09 | Lifeline Eligibility | FCC | FCC is establishing a new data-sharing agreement with Iowa to verify Lifeline eligibility by matching applicants and subscribers against state SNAP records. FCC and USAC will send names, dates of birth, and the last four digits of Social Security numbers, and Iowa will return whether the person is enrolled in SNAP. The match may also be used for other federal programs that rely on Lifeline eligibility. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-09-09 | Shaping the Future of Loan Repayment | ED | ED is launching a new study of how federal student-loan borrowers understand and choose repayment plans, including income-driven repayment. Interviews with borrowers will examine how they weigh monthly payments, repayment length, forgiveness, interest subsidies, and other plan features, as well as why borrowers enter or leave IDR and how repayment affects household finances and life decisions. | Education |
| 2026-09-08 | Census of Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies (CTLEA) | DOJ/BJS | The CTLEA, last fielded in 2019, collects data on all tribal law enforcement agencies operating in the U.S. Data collected include the number of sworn staff by tribe and type of agency, arrests and call for service and functions performed by each agency. The listing indicates that changes are being made to the survey, but no supplemental materials are available to help us understand what changes are being made. | Policing |