Take Action!
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. Take Action! 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, or
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-22 | Allocation of Operating Funds under the Operating Fund Formula: Data Collection | HUD | This series of forms is used by Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) to submit project level budget data annually to HUD field offices. In this notice, HUD is updating the certifications PHAs are required to make as a part of this process to include certifications that the PHAs will not use funds to "promote 'gender ideology' as defined in EO 14168," to violate civil rights protections, or to "fund or promote elective abortions, as required by EO 14182," and that it will follow "immigration restrictions and requirements, including eligibility and verification requirements" and many not use and funds in any way that would "facilitate the subsidization or promotion of illegal immigration... [or] shield illegal aliens from deportation." | Housing |
| 2025-09-22 | Current Population Survey-Child Support Supplement | Census | This survey collects detailed information about child support agreements and awards, including both required payments and amounts received, as well as data about the socioeconomic characteristics of custodial parents and their families. Census is making modest changes to the survey, but most content is retained. | Child Welfare |
| 2025-09-22 | Application for a Travel Document | DHS | This form is used by lawful permanent residents, conditional permanent residents, refugees, asylees, applicants for adjustment of status, noncitizens with pending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applications and granted TPS, and other types of immigrants to allow them to travel to the United States and lawfully enter or reenter the United States. DHS is amending the form to remove the option to identify as "another gender identity." | Immigration |
| 2025-09-22 | National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS) | DOJ | DOJ is making a number of changes to its NPS program, which collects information about people incarcerated in state and federal facilities. Proposed changes include removing the HIV/AIDS module and conducting cognitive testing on implementing SPD15. As part of the SPD15 test, DOJ plans to assess the availability of more detailed race and ethnicity information within the respondents' data systems. | Criminal Justice |
| 2025-09-22 | National Crime Victimization Survey | DOJ | The NCVS provides data on the level and change of criminal victimization both reported and not reported to police in the United States. DOJ is revising the survey to add and remove several questions, including additng questions about hate crimes against people based on their religious beliefs, removing gender identity response options from the sex question (but retaining the gender identity-related hate crime question, including gender non-conforming response options), and adding language about taking action to protect property. | Criminal Justice |
| 2025-09-19 | Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey | Census | Census regularly changes questions in its Pulse survey to meet the needs of federal agency programs. In this announcement, Census is proposing to conduct the 2030 Census Planning Survey, which is designed to understand attitudes and behaviors that relate to 2030 census participation across demographic characteristics. Topics include census knowledge and trust in census data, intention to respond to the 2030 census, barriers to completing the 2030 census, and motivators to completing the 2030 census. | Data Collection |
| 2025-09-19 | Social Security Administration Forms | SSA | SSA is revising a number of its forms, including the Continuing Disability Review Report (used to assess whether a disbility payment claimant's disability continues to make them unable to work), Special Veterans Benefits forms, and SSN Verification Process forms. The listing indicates that changes are being made to these forms, but it's unclear what changes are being made. | Public Benefits |
| 2025-09-19 | TRICARE Select Survey of Civilian Providers | DOD | This survey is designed to gather data on providers (physicians including primary care physicians, specialist, and mental health providers and non-physician behavioral health providers) to assess the extent to which they are aware of the overall TRICARE program, accept new TRICARE patients specifically, the extent to which these providers accept Medicare patients, and reasons if they are not. It's unclear from the listing whether any changes are being made. | Military |
| 2025-09-19 | Childbirth and Breastfeeding Demonstration Survey | DOD | This survey will be used to evaluate the Childbirth and Breastfeeding Support Demonstration (CBSD), which is a project that will cover services of certain extra medical providers (certified labor doulas, certified lactation consultants, and certified lactation counselors) over a 5-year period. The survey will solicit information from TRICARE beneficiaries who have given birth in the specified reporting period. Results will be used to assist in evaluating the effectiveness of the CBSD project. | Military |
| 2025-09-19 | Provider Beliefs Regarding the Deadlift and their Effect on Patient Management | DOD | The Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) contains six events, including the maximum deadlift (MDL), which is a three-repetition maximum lift using a hex (or trap) style bar. Despite limited evidence of positive association for lumbopelvic injuries and deadlift, there are concerns about the deadlift being a part of the ACFT. The primary aim of the survey is to assess if provider beliefs regarding the deadlift exercise differ among various healthcare provider disciplines within the military healthcare system and assess if these differences are consistent with validated treatment orientations for lower back pain, and if differences in beliefs influence treatment behaviors for a patient presenting with a deadlift injury. | Military |
| 2025-09-19 | Travel and Border Crossing Records | SSA | SSA is revising this records system to remove references to gender, but other changes seem non-substantive. | ID Docs/Gov't Records |
| 2025-09-19 | J-1 Visa Waiver Recommendation Application | State | This form is used by J-1 visa holders to request a waiver of the two-year foreign residency requirement in several circumstances, including if return to the country of nationality or last residence would result in exceptional hardship to the visa holder's spouse or child who is a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident; or if the person cannot return to the country of his or her nationality or last residence because he or she would be subject to persecution on account of race, religion, or political opinion. The listing indicates that changes are being made to the form, but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Immigration |
| 2025-09-19 | Counterintelligence Investigations and Collection Activities (CICA) Privacy Act Exemption | DOD | DOD is proposing to exempt portions of its new Counterintelligence Investigations and Collection Activities (CICA) system of records from certain provisions of the Privacy Act to protect national security and law enforcement interests. | Privacy |
| 2025-09-19 | Digital Identity File Record System | SSA | SSA is making changes to this record system to ensure consistency with other records system notices. The changes appear to be non-substantive. | ID Docs/Gov't Records |
| 2025-09-19 | Administrative Law Judge/Public Alleged Misconduct Complaints System | SSA | SSA is revising this records system to remove references to gender, create a carve out to clarify that tax return information will not be shared unless authorized, and align language with other records system notices. | ID Docs/Gov't Records |
| 2025-09-19 | Race and Ethnicity Collection System | SSA | SSA is updating this records system to clarify language, but it doesn't seem to contain any substantive changes. | ID Docs/Gov't Records |
| 2025-09-18 | National Outbreak Reporting System | HHS/CDC | NORS is used to report disease outbreaks to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC is revising the sex fields in the form to remove the words "identify as" so they now read "primary cases who are male/female." | Health and Safety |
| 2025-09-17 | Annual Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad | DOC/BEA | This survey collects data on the financial structure and operations of U.S. parents and their foreign affiliates. The data are needed to provide reliable, useful, and timely measures of U.S. direct investment abroad to assess its impact on the U.S. and foreign economies. The previous listing for this survey indicated that BEA was discontinuing collection on minority-owned foreign affiliates; it's unclear from this listing whether BEA is moving forward with that change or not. | Economy |
| 2025-09-16 | National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) 2025-2027 | ED | NPEFS is a comprehensive source of state-level finance data for public education including 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. NPEFS data are used to calculate a state's “average per-pupil expenditure” (SPPE) for elementary and secondary education and in calculating allocations for certain formula grant programs. No changes are being made to the survey. | Education |
| 2025-09-16 | School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS) | ED | SLFS is a comprehensive source of school-level finance data for public education including salaries, benefits, and total current expenditures broken out by activity (function) for all publicly funded schools serving students in prekindergarten through 12th grade. Data on school-level spending patterns is helpful for parents to make choices for the education of their child. Uniform and comparable data helps states measure the effectiveness of resource allocation. Collecting this data at the national level addresses the need for reliable and unbiased measures that can be utilized to compare how resources are distributed among schools within local districts. Education finance statistics provided by this collection allow for comparisons of how public elementary-secondary schools are spending their funds. No changes are being made to this survey. | Education |