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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.
highlights surveys or forms the government is changing, renewing, or introducing. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-07 | Medicare Health Outcomes Survey Field Test | CMS | CMS uses this survey to collect data for MA plan comparison, including data on enrollee satisfaction and health outcomes, and report this information and other plan quality and performance indicators to Medicare beneficiaries prior to the annual enrollment period. CMS is making several changes to both the methodology and content of the survey; potential new measures from this survey will go through further rulemaking and consideration processes before being added to the full survey. | Healthcare |
| 2026-01-05 | Unemployment Insurance Record File | RRB | This file is used to administer, manage, and verify unemployment and sickness benefits. RRB is adding new routine users to this and several other SORNs, including Congressional representatives, contractors working for the federal government, law enforcement, other federal agencies and entities pertaining to breach notification, National Archives, and attorney representatives. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-01-05 | Applications for Unemployment Benefits and Placement Service | RRB | This file is used to store application data for railroad workers who apply for unemployment benefits and placement service. RRB is adding new routine users to this and several other SORNs, including Congressional representatives, contractors working for the federal government, law enforcement, other federal agencies and entities pertaining to breach notification, National Archives, and attorney representatives. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-01-05 | Standard Application Process (SAP) Records | NSF | This new system will be used for collecting and maintaining requests from researchers or other individuals applying for access to confidential data assets from participating federal agencies and units for evidence-building, statistical purposes. | Data Collection |
| 2026-01-05 | NASA and Treasury Data Sharing Agreement | NASA | NASA is entering into a new data sharing agreement with the Department of Treasury to share information from its Core Financial Management Records system for the purposes of identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments to an applicant for, or recipient of, Federal funds, including funds disbursed by a state in a state-administered, federally funded program. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-01-05 | Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans Executive Order Reporting | SBA | An EO issued in August 2025 directed SBA and banking regulators to end the practice of "politicized or unlawful debanking," which it defines as the practice where banks and financial services providers, both independently and at the direction of federal regulators, freeze or close accounts, deny loans, and refuse services to “politically disfavored” people and businesses. This information collection is necessary to evidence SBA Lender compliance with this Executive Order. | Economy |
| 2026-01-05 | NSF and Treasury Data Sharing Agreement | NSF | NSF is entering into a data sharing agreement with Dept of Treasury to share records from its Fellowship Payroll and NSF Electronic Payment systems for the purposes of identifying improper payments. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-01-05 | Social Security Benefit Vouchering System | RRB | This file is used to administer, certify, and voucher Social Security benefit payments. RRB is adding new routine users to this and several other SORNs, including Congressional representatives, contractors working for the federal government, law enforcement, other federal agencies and entities pertaining to breach notification, National Archives, and attorney representatives. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-01-05 | Tenants in LIHTC Properties | HUD | States use this form to submit information to HUD on the race, ethnicity, family composition, age, income, use of rental assistance under section 8, disability status, and monthly rental payments of households residing in each property receiving LIHTC tax credits. HUD is updating the race and ethnicity questions on this form to align with SPD 15 standards. | Housing |
| 2026-01-02 | Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services | DHS | This proposed rule would require submission of biometrics by any individual, regardless of age, filing or associated with an immigration benefit request, other request, or collection of information, unless exempted; expand biometrics collection authority upon arrest of a non-citizen; define “biometrics;” codify reuse requirements; codify and expand DNA testing, use and storage; establish an “extraordinary circumstances” standard to excuse a failure to appear at a biometric services appointment; modify how VAWA self-petitioners and T nonimmigrant status applicants demonstrate good moral character; and clarify biometrics collection purposes. DNA use changes include testing for "biological sex" and for genetic relationship between family members. | Immigration |
| 2025-12-31 | SBA Federal Agency Comment Form | SBA | This form is used by SBA to receive comments on regulatory and compliance actions from small entities regarding their disagreements with a Federal Agency action. SBA is revising the form to add questions about "debanking," likely in alignment with an EO issued in August 2025 directed SBA and banking regulators to end the practice of "politicized or unlawful debanking," which it defines as the practice where banks and financial services providers, both independently and at the direction of federal regulators, freeze or close accounts, deny loans, and refuse services to “politically disfavored” people and businesses. | Economy |
| 2025-12-29 | CFTC Records Systems | CFTC | CFTC is modifying four Privacy Act systems of records by adding a new routine use to permit the disclosure of records to the Department of the Treasury. | Data Sharing |
| 2025-12-29 | Juvenile Facility Census Program (JFCP) | DOJ/BJS | The JFCP will combine two prior collections: the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement and the Juvenile Residential Facility Census. Collectively, this new program will collect data on individual youth housed in facilities (including demographic details, placement characteristics, and length of stay), and information on resident services, facility features, and operations. According to the listing, the two data collections are being consolidated the attain cost savings and reduce respondent burden. | Juvenile Justice |
| 2025-12-29 | Determining Eligibility for Enrollment in Applicable State Health Subsidy Programs | HHS/CMS | Under this matching program, CMS will share data with state administering entities to determine applicants' eligibility for enrollment in applicable state health subsidy programs, including exemption from the requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage or from the individual responsibility payment. In addition, to avoid dual enrollment, information will be shared between CMS and AEs, and among AEs, for the purpose of verifying whether applicants and enrollees are currently eligible for or enrolled in a Medicaid/CHIP program. All information will be shared through a data services hub established by CMS to support the federally-facilitated health insurance exchange and state-based exchanges. Note that this notice was revised in a listing on 11/28 (https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-21394) and has an updated due date. In the updated notice, CMS clarified what categories of records would be shared, including identifying records; minimum essential coverage period records; Federal Tax Information (FTI) (household income and family size information); citizenship status records; birth and death information; disability coverage and income information; and imprisonment status records. The data elements CMS will receive from AEs may include: Social Security Number (if applicable), Last Name, First Name, and Date of Birth. The data elements the AEs will receive from CMS may include: Validation of SSN; Verification of citizenship or immigration status; Incarceration status; Eligibility and/or enrollment in certain types of MEC; Income, based on FTI, Title II benefits, and current income sources; Quarters of Coverage; and Death Indicator. | Healthcare |
| 2025-12-26 | National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) | ED | This survey of state-level finance data for public education collects information on the revenues, expenditures, and average daily attendance of all publicly funded schools and elementary-secondary local education agencies (LEAs), state payments on behalf of LEAs, and state support for a free public education for students in prekindergarten through 12th grade. NCES is not making any changes to the survey at this time. | Education |
| 2025-12-26 | Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise | OSTP | Through this RFI, OSTP seeks input from academia; private sector organizations; industry groups; state, local, and tribal governments; and other stakeholders regarding priorities for strengthening the science and technology (S&T) ecosystem to support both the expansion of scientific knowledge and the mechanisms to transition these discoveries into the marketplace. Specific questions in the RFI address public-private partnerships, business as drivers of innovation, regulations as barrier to innvoation, identifying scientific talent, fostering collaboration, and many other areas. | Science and Technology |
| 2025-12-26 | Optional Flexible Financial Assistance Survey | DOJ | This survey will ask limited questions about how and when survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking received flexible financial assistance, as well as information about the impact of financial assistance in pursuing safety and security for themselves and their families. | Violence |
| 2025-12-26 | DOD Records Systems | DOD | DOD is revising 18 of its records systems to permit disclosure of records to the Department of the Treasury for the purpose of identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments, consistent with applicable law. | Data Sharing |
| 2025-12-26 | SSA Records Notices | SSA | SSA is revising 19 of its records systems, including the Master Beneficiary File and Medicare Database File, to permit disclosure of data to the Department of Treasury to review SSA's payment and award eligibility through the Do Not Pay Working System for the purpose of identifying, preventing, or recouping fraud and improper payments. | Data Sharing |
| 2025-12-26 | SSA and IRS Data Sharing Agreement | SSA | This notice announces a data sharing program between IRS and SSA, under which the IRS will disclose IRS return information to SSA for use in verifying eligibility for, and the correct amount of, benefits to qualified aged, blind, and disabled individuals. Note that the listing indicates that this is the renewal of an existing data sharing program rather than a new program. | Data Collection |