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. DataWatch — 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 | Summary | Main Issues | New/Renew | Agency | Respondents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-11 | CMS Modified System of Records | CMS is modifying its Home Health Agency (HHA) Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) to collect information on patients with any payer source, instead of just patients with Medicare/Medicaid pay sources and to add new routine uses, which include sharing with courts and other adjudicative bodies and sharing with congressional offices in response to constituent requests. | Healthcare | Revision | HHS/CMS | N/A |
| 2025-08-08 | National Directory of New Hires | The NDNH is a federally mandated repository of employment and wage information used by state child support agencies to locate a parent living or working in a different state and to take appropriate interstate actions to establish, modify, or enforce a child support order. Minor changes are being made to the collection, including changing the date format and removing the option to submit by mail. | Child Welfare | Revision | HHS/ACF | Employers, SLT governments |
| 2025-08-08 | Reserve Component Spouse Survey | This survey is the primary source for reliable and generalizable data on the effects of military life on military spouses and their families and the impact of military life on Reserve component war fighter readiness and retention. This data provides vital information on the need for programs and policies under the purview of DoD's Military Community and Family Policy Department. It's unclear from the listing whether any changes are being made to this survey. | Military | Renewal | DOD | Individuals and households |
| 2025-08-08 | Multiple Worksite Report (MWR) and the Report of Federal Employment and Wages (RFEW) | The collections covered by this listing support the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), a Federal/State cooperative effort which compiles monthly employment data, quarterly wages data, and business identification information from employers subject to State Unemployment Insurance (UI) laws. No changes are being made to this collection. | Economic Justice | Renewal | DOL | Businesses |
| 2025-08-08 | Plan for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance-Title IV-E | Child welfare agencies requesting federal funding for foster care and adoption assistance, as well as for the optional guardianship assistance, kinship navigator and prevention services programs, use these forms to provide assurances the programs will be administered in conformity with the specific requirements stipulated in title IV-E of the Social Security Act. Several changes are being made to these forms; from the listing, the changes appear to be innocuous. | Child Welfare | Revision | HHS/ACF | Child welfare agencies |
| 2025-08-07 | Greenhouse Gas Emissions Value Analysis | This form will be used to collect information from electricity producers in order to provide such electricity producers with an emissions value that a qualifying facility may use to petition the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a Provisional Emissions Rate (PER) and claim the section 45Y or 48E tax credits. | Climate/Environment | New | DOE | Businesses |
| 2025-08-04 | Unfair Immigration-Related Employment Practices Complaint Form | The INA prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of citizenship status or national origin; retaliation or intimidation by an employer against an individual seeking to exercise his or her right under this section; and “document abuse” or over-documentation by the employer. This form is used by people who believe that they have experienced discrimination in violation of the INA. The changes described in the listing seem to be minimal and technical. | Non-Discrimination | Revision | DOJ | Individuals |
| 2025-08-04 | HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program HIV Quality Measures Module | The HIV Quality Measures (HIVQM) Module is an online tool to assist recipients in meeting the clinical quality management program requirement by allowing recipients to input data for over 40 HRSA performance measures. The HIVQM Module also supports the requirement that recipients relate financial data to performance accomplishments of their Federal awards. The HIVQM Module helps recipients set goals and monitor performance measures and quality improvement projects. The use of the HIVQM Module is voluntary for RWHAP recipients but strongly encouraged. It is unclear from the listing what changes are being made to the module. | HIV/AIDS | Revision | HHS | Grantees |
| 2025-08-01 | Supportive Housing & Individual Placement and Support (SHIPS) Study | The SHIPS study is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed to determine whether participation in Individual Placement and Support (IPS) improves the employment, income, health, and self-sufficiency of people who are recently homeless and living in supportive housing. The SHIPS study will mark the first study testing the effectiveness of implementing IPS in a supportive housing program. | Homelessness | New | SSA | Program participants |
| 2025-08-01 | Attorney General's Honors Program and the Summer Law Intern Program (HP/SLIP) | This form, which candidates use to apply for the AG's Honors Program or Summer Law Intern Program, is being revised to remove references to sexual orientation and gender identity. | LGBTQI+ | Revision | DOJ | Individuals |
| 2025-08-01 | Moving to Work (MTW), Asset Building Cohort Evaluation | This survey will ask HUD-assisted households at PHAs implementing the opt-out savings account program about financial goals and aspirations, and experiences with banking, savings, and credit to support Phase 2 of HUD's Asset Building Cohort evaluation. | Housing | New | HUD | Households |
| 2025-08-01 | Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD); Supporting Contracts and Processing Requirements | This listing covers a series of forms used by grantees to apply for Rental Assistance Demonstration project funding. Through this listing, HUD is removing references to DEIA generally and is removing references to HUD's "Equal Access Rule," which provides non-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in HUD programs. | Housing | Revision | HUD | PHAs |
| 2025-08-01 | Statutorily-Mandated Collection of Information for Tenants in LIHTC Properties | As required by law, this form collects information annually from state agencies that administer Low Income Housing Tax Credits. The form collects information on race, ethnicity, family composition, age, income, use of rental assistance, disability status, and monthly rental payments of households residing in each property receiving such credits through such agency. It is unclear from the listing what revisions are being made to this form. | Housing | Revision | HUD | States |
| 2025-07-30 | Income Driven Repayment Plan Request | This form is used by student loan borrowers to enroll, recertify, or change their IDR plan. Pursuant to an injunction issued in Feb 2025, the form is being updated to remove the SAVE plan as an option for borrowers to select and remove components that apply to the other IDR plans such as reverting the definition of family size to the pre-July 1, 2024, definition for all IDR plans and removing references to interest subsidy during repayment. Additional updates to improve clarity and the borrower experience as a result of these changes have also been made. | Education | Revision | ED | Individuals |
| 2025-07-30 | Recompete Pilot Program Implementation | Recompete Pilot Program grantees will use these forms to submit information to EDA on topics like employment and wage outcomes for Recompete program participants, economic distress in service areas, effectiveness of workforce development programming, effectiveness of small business supports, and local economic development capacity. | Economic Development | New | EDA | Grantees |
| 2025-07-28 | Review Choice Demonstration for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Services | This demonstration project is intended to assist CMS in developing improved procedures for the identification, investigation, and prosecution of Medicare fraud occurring among IRFs providing services to Medicare beneficiaries. CMS plans to continue the demonstration - which uses pre-claim and postpayment review - in Alabama and Pennsylvania, then expand to Texas, and California. | Healthcare | Renewal | CMS | Businesses and non-profits |
| 2025-07-28 | Generic Clearance for the Collection of Certain Biographic and Employment Identifiers on Immigration Forms | This listing adds six new questions to several immigration forms, including petitioner SSN, family member information, and employer information. | Immigration | New | DHS | Individuals and households |
| 2025-07-28 | Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Data Report | Tribes with an approved Tribal TANF program use these forms to collect data on the recipients served by the tribes' programs. This information includes both aggregated and disaggregated data on case characteristics and individual characteristics. | Food Access | Renewal | HHS | Tribal governments |
| 2025-07-28 | Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Complaint Forms | Treasury is changing its EEO Complaint forms to remove gender identity and sexual orientation as a basis for a sex discrimination complaint, despite the Supreme Court's determination in Bostock v. Clayton that "An employer who fires an individual employee merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." | LGBTQI+ | Revision | Treasury | Individuals |
| 2025-07-28 | American Time Use Survey | ATUS measures how people in the United States spend their time. For example, ATUS measures time spent with children, working, providing eldercare, sleeping, or doing leisure activities. Several other Federal surveys collect income and wage data for individuals and families, and analysts often use such measures of material prosperity as proxies for quality of life. Time-use data substantially augment these quality-of-life measures. | Data Collection | Renewal | DOL | Individuals and households |