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- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-24 | Data Resource Toolkit Protocol for the Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program | SAMHSA | The forms in this toolkit are used to collect data on the Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program (CCP), which provides supplemental funding to states, territories, and tribes for individual and community crisis intervention services after a presidentially declared major disaster. SAMHSA is making changes to most of the forms in the toolkit, including updating race and ethnicity questions to align with SPD15, removing transgender response options to revised sex questions, and removing questions about recent immigration. | Mental Health |
| 2025-12-24 | Trafficking Victim Assistance Program Data | ACF | The TVA program provides benefits and services to victims of severe forms of trafficking. These forms collect data on on participant demographics (e.g., age, sex, type of trafficking experienced, service location) and services provided, along with aggregate information on outreach activities conducted, subrecipients enrolled, and dollars spent per service. ACF is making several changes to the form. Most seem like minor language changes (e.g., changing "victim" to "client"), those some indicators are being removed (including citizenship) and others are being collapsed/condensed (such as collapsing SNAP and WIC response options into a single "Food Benefits" response option). | Trafficking |
| 2025-12-22 | ViCAP National Crime Database | DOJ | ViCAP is idesigned to collect information about Homicides (and attempts) that are known or suspected to be part of a series and/or are apparently random or sexually oriented; Sexual Assaults that are known or suspected to be part of a series and/or are committed by a stranger; Missing Persons where the circumstances indicate a strong possibility of foul play and the victim is still missing; and Unidentified Human Remains where the manner of death is known or suspected to be homicide. It's unclear from the listing what components of the collection are being revised. | Criminal Justice |
| 2025-12-22 | ACF and SSA Matching Program | HHS/ACF | Under this new matching program, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Child Support Services (OCSS) will disclose quarterly wage information to SSA to establish or verify eligibility, continuing entitlement, or payment amounts, or all of the above, of individuals under Title II Disability Insurance (DI) program of the Social Security Act. | Disability |
| 2025-12-22 | RRB and SSA Matching Program | RRB | Under this new matching program, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) will disclose RRB annuity payment data to SSA. SSA will use the information to verify Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Special Veterans Benefits (SVB) eligibility and benefit payment amounts. SSA will also record the railroad annuity amounts RRB paid to SSI and SVB recipients in the Supplemental Security Income Record (SSR). | Public Benefits |
| 2025-12-22 | Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) | HHS/CMS | This survey provides a holistic view of Medicare beneficiaries' social and medical risk factors and rich information on the relationship between these risk factors, healthcare utilization, and health outcomes, at a point in time and over time. CMS is revising the survey to change the question on sexual orientation, remove the question on gender identity, and remove the question on perceived discrimination, which was used to measure perceived discrimination from health care providers due to certain personal attributes, including race or ethnicity, language or accent, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, age, culture or religion, disability, or medical history. According to the listing, "this proposed revision... will remove questionnaire items that are no longer relevant for administration." | Healthcare |
| 2025-12-19 | Weekly Claims and Extended Benefits Data and Weekly Initial and Continued Weeks Claimed | DOL | Data collected through this program is used to assess the beginning, continuance, or termination of an Extended Benefit period in any State, which determine the EB trigger rate. Also, data on initial and continued claims are used to help determine economic indicators. There do not appear to be any significant changes to this collection. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-12-19 | HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program HIV Quality Measures Module | HHS | RWHAP funds and coordinates with cities, states, and local clinics/community-based organizations to deliver efficient and effective HIV care, treatment, and support to low-income people with HIV. The HIVQM is an online tool to assist recipients in meeting the clinical quality management program requirement by allowing recipients to input data for the HRSA performance measures. HHS is changing the gender question to ask only about sex at birth, removing options to report on transgender participants in its programs. Roughly 20-25% of transgender women are living with HIV; trans women are 66 times more likely to have HIV and trans men are nearly 7 times more likely to have HIV. | HIV/AIDS |
| 2025-12-19 | Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration | State | This form collects information necessary for consular officers to determine the eligibility and classification of an individual seeking an immigrant visa. In response to public comments from immigration attorneys, State made several changes to the form to simplify language or reporting requirements; however, State indicated that many concerns raised in the comments were deferred to a future effort to modernize the system overall. | Immigration |
| 2025-12-18 | Fair Housing Home Loan Data System | Treasury | Treasury is proposing to rescind its Fair Housing Home Loan Data System regulation, arguing that the rule is largely duplicative of and inconsistent with other legal authorities that require national banks to collect and retain information on applications for home loans. The rule was issued "to provide a basis for a more effective fair housing monitoring program for home loans;" according to the listing, OCC examiners use data collected under the rule to assess fair lending risk at national banks. | Housing |
| 2025-12-17 | FDIC Records Systems | FDIC | FDIC is modifying all of its records systems to increase interagency information sharing to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse, including with the Treasury Department. In addition, FDIC is modifying two records systems to use the term "sex" instead of "gender." | Data Sharing |
| 2025-12-15 | Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) | ED | IPEDS collects data from postsecondary institutions on topics like enrollments, degrees and other awards earned, tuition and fees, average net price, student financial aid, graduation rates, student outcomes, revenues and expenditures, faculty salaries, and staff employed. ED is proposing to add an Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement, which is intended to capture information that could indicate whether institutions of higher education are using race-based preferencing in their admissions processes. | Education |
| 2025-12-15 | Small Business Lending Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act | CFPB | Under this proposal, the CFPB would dramatically change the type of data collected from lenders under the ECOA. Changes would include ceasing the collection of disaggregated race and ethnicity data, removing questions about LGBTQ-owned businesses, reducing the number of entities required to comply with the data collection requirements, and ceasing collection of data points like denial reason and pricing information. | Economic Development |
| 2025-12-12 | Master Files of Social Security Number (SSN) Holders and SSN Applications | SSA | Through this notice, SSA is announcing its intention to share citizenship and immigration data with DHS and to share data with Treasury for the purpose of identifying, preventing, or recouping fraud and improper payments. | Immigration |
| 2025-12-10 | Improving Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part A and B Formula Awards Using Most Recent Address Data | HRSA | HRSA is proposing a change to the methodology they use to allocate RWHA funding. Under this proposal, HRSA would calculate RWHAP Part A and B formula awards using case data based on most recent address, rather than residence at diagnosis, with a phase-in timeline and use of appropriate action to minimize funding fluctuations. | HIV/AIDS |
| 2025-12-03 | Current Population Survey, Basic Demographics | Census | The CPS collects data on the US labor force; this section of the survey collects demographic information. According to the listing, there are no changes to this survey and the "CPS will continue to comply with requirements from Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 Federal Race and Ethnicity Data Standards (SPD 15)." | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-12-01 | Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program (SAVE) | DHS | SAVE allows registered user agencies to verify the immigration status/category (“immigration status”) and U.S. citizenship (including for U.S. citizens by birth, naturalized, and certain acquired citizens) of individuals applying for or receiving a public benefit, license or other authorized purpose. This notice allows the use of SAVE for voter verification, removes fees for state use of the system, add social security information, and includes several other changes. | Immigration |
| 2025-12-01 | Information Sharing Between Government Agencies and Financial Institutions | Treasury | Upon receiving an information request from FinCEN, a financial institution must search its records to determine whether it maintains or has maintained any account or engaged in any transaction with an individual, entity, or organization named in the request. If a financial institution identifies an account or transaction named in the request, it must report such information to FinCEN in the manner and timeframe specified in the request. This listing covers the collection of that information. | Criminal Justice |
| 2025-12-01 | Survey of the Costs of AML/CFT Compliance | Treasury | Treasury is conducting this survey to gather information on the direct compliance costs incurred by non-bank financial institutions with Anti Money Laundering/Coutering the Financing of Terrorism compliance requirements and, to the extent these expenses overlap with those of other activities (such as fraud monitoring), the amount attributable to AML/CFT compliance. | Economy |
| 2025-12-01 | Placement and Transfer of Unaccompanied [Alien] Children Into ORR Care Provider Facilities | HHS/ACF | Through this listing, ORR is making changes to many of its forms, including language changes (changing gender to sex, changing unaccompanied child to unaccompanied alien child) and adding new questions on presence of a disability and disability services provided to unaccompanied children. | Immigration |