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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-29 | CCDF Quarterly Case-Level Report | OCC proposes changes to the reporting requirements to combine race and ethnicity into a single category. OCC had previously proposed additional changes but has dropped those proposals to be responsive to public comment and limit administrative burden. | Child Welfare | Revision | ACF | SLT governments |
| 2025-05-27 | American Time Use Survey | The ATUS is the Nation's first federally administered, continuous survey on time use in the United States. It measures, for example, time spent providing childcare and eldercare, working, doing household chores, and spent in leisure activities. In the United States, several existing 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. The data also can be used in conjunction with wage data to evaluate the contribution of non-market work to national economies. | Economic Justice | Renewal | BLS | Individuals or households |
| 2025-05-23 | Electronic Applications for the Attorney General's Honors Program and the Summer Law Intern Program (HP/SLIP) | This form is used to apply for DOJ's Honors and Summer Intern programs. It is being revised to remove references to sexual orientation and gender identity. | LGBTQI+ | Revision | DOJ | Individuals |
| 2025-05-22 | National Household Survey on Disaster Preparedness | The Individual and Community Preparedness Division analyzes and uses data collected in the two versions of the National Household Survey on Disaster Preparedness to identify progress and gaps in individual and community preparedness and to better understand the motivational factors and barriers to preparedness that people face. The survey measures the public's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors relative to preparing for disasters. | Emergency Management | Reinstate | FEMA | Individuals and households |
| 2025-05-18 | American Community Survey (ACS) Methods Panel Tests | This notice describes the intended research to be included in the ACS methods panel test, which will test a number of methodology changes as well as new content on sexual orientation. Gender identity question testing has been cancelled. | LGBTQI+ | Revision | Census | Individuals and households |
| 2025-05-14 | Privacy Act of 1974; Exempting a System of Records From Certain Requirements | This is actually a final rule - cross referenced on FedWatch page. Treasury is exempting the IRS Insider Risk Management SOR from certain provisions of the Privacy Act. Basically, many provisions of that law allow people to know when their record is shared with another agency, allow amendment or appeal of their records, allow them to know if they're in a record, etc. This rule provides exemptions to all those provisions on the grounds that knowing they're in the record could impede an investigation against a person. | Privacy | Revision | Treasury | N/A |
| 2025-05-13 | Accreditation of Non-Attorney Representative | This information collection will allow an organization to seek accreditation or renewal of accreditation of a non-attorney representative to appear before EOIR. Changes to the form include revisions to the form's Privacy Act notice; addition of the expiration date for OMB approval on the form; updates to the address to which applications can be submitted; and addition of an alternative method by which applications can be submitted. | Immigration | Revision | DOJ | Non-profit institutions |
| 2025-05-13 | Recognition of a Non-Profit Religious, Charitable, Social Service, or Similar Organization | This information collection will allow an organization to request and renew recognition of the organization to appear before EOIR. Changes to the form include These changes include revisions to the form's Privacy Act notice; addition of the expiration date for OMB approval on the form; updates to the address to which applications can be submitted; and addition of an alternative method by which applications can be submitted. | Immigration | Revision | DOJ | Non-profit institutions |
| 2025-05-12 | Matching Program/HHS | This notice announces a new matching program with HHS's Office of Child Support Services (OCSS). Under this matching program, OCSS will provide SSA with quarterly wage (QW) and unemployment insurance (UI) information located in the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) to allow SSA to determine eligibility of applicants for Extra Help (low-income subsidy assistance) under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003. This agreement assists SSA in determining eligibility of applicants for Extra Help, redetermining eligibility of existing Extra Help beneficiaries during periodic screening, and administering the Extra Help program. | Public Benefits | New | SSA | N/A |
| 2025-05-12 | Alien Registration Form and Evidence of Registration | This IFR amends DHS regulations to designate a new registration form for undocumented people to comply with statutory registration and fingerprinting provisions. Undocumented people who are subject to registration requirements of the INA who have not yet registered may use this registration form to satisfy their statutory obligations. This IFR also amends DHS regulations to designate additional documentation that may serve as evidence of registration. | Immigration | New | DHS | Individuals |
| 2025-05-12 | Matching Program/IRS | This notice announces a new matching program between the IRS and SSA. Under this matching program, the IRS will disclose to SSA certain return information for the purpose of verifying eligibility for the Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy (LIS) and determining the correct subsidy percentage of benefits provided under the Social Security Act (Act). | Public Benefits | New | SSA | N/A |
| 2025-05-09 | mySocial Security—Security Authentication PIN | To mitigate fraud concerns, in April 2025, SSA will increase the level of identity proofing needed for customers to make payment method changes during phone interactions. While necessary to protect the public and the integrity of SSA's programs, this limits the accessibility of the phone as a service channel for claims filed over the phone that will require identity proofing, such as post-entitlement/post-eligibility direct deposit changes, and certain claims which SSA flags as anomalous. To bridge this gap, SSA developed a hybrid identity proofing process called the Security Authentication PIN (SAP) that will provide identity-proofing parity with our online modality, as well as in-person verification. Utilizing the SAP process will provide the necessary identity verification to allow payment method changes to these flagged claims and existing records via phone or in person, while ensuring fraud protection through verification of the identity of the individual prior to accessing or revising their account. | Public Benefits | New | SSA | Individuals |
| 2025-05-05 | Collection of Social Media Identifier(s) on Immigration Forms | This notice proposes the collection of social media identifiers on a number of immigration forms. According to the listing, "This data will be collected from certain populations of individuals on applications for immigration-related benefits and is necessary for the enhanced identity verification, vetting and national security screening and, inspection conducted by USCIS and required under the E.O." | Immigration | Revision | USCIS | Individuals or households |
| 2025-05-02 | Collection of Certain Information on Immigration Forms | This notice proposes the collection of new consistent fields of information on a number of immigration forms for "enhanced screening and vetting standards and procedures to enable USCIS to assess an alien's eligibility to receive an immigration-related benefit. This data collection also is used to help validate an applicant's identity and to determine whether such grant of a benefit poses a security or public-safety risk to the United States." The new fields includ demographic information and information about family members. | Immigration | Revision | USCIS | Individuals or households |
| 2025-04-30 | National Survey of Children's Health | NCHS is used to produce national and state-based estimates on the health and well-being of children, their families, and their communities as well as estimates of the prevalence and impact of children with special health care needs. It is unclear from the listing what elements of the survey are being revised. | Health and Safety | Revision | Census | Individuals and households |
| 2025-04-28 | Number of Law Enforcement Employees as of October 31 | This collection requests demographics associated with the number of full and part-time law enforcement employees, both officers and civilians, from federal, state, county, city, university/college, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies in order for the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program to serve as the national clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of police employee data and to publish these statistics in Crime in the Nation and on the Crime Data Explorer. | Criminal Justice | Renewal | DOJ | SLT governments |
| 2025-04-28 | TRICARE Competitive Plans Demonstration (CPD) | This demonstration project will assist the DHA in evaluating whether delivery of the TRICARE Prime health care option under the framework of the CPDs will result in improvements in health care quality for TRICARE Prime beneficiaries and/or a reduction in health care spending for the DoD. This program is intended to determine if the presence of local, regional or national level CPD-like health plans will generate beneficial competition between the CPD-like plans and the regional MCSCs for the enrollment of TRICARE beneficiaries. | Healthcare | New | DOD | N/A |
| 2025-04-28 | National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 | The primary objective of the survey is to study the transition from schooling to the establishment of careers and families. The longitudinal focus of this survey requires information to be collected from the same individuals over many years in order to trace their education, training, work experience, fertility, income, and program participation. This revision includes new questions on platform work, whether and which accommodations are offered by employers, clarifications on the nature of work arrangements, respondents' expectations for retirement and collect broad measures of disability. In addition, fewer questions will be asked about coronavirus and health behaviors. | Labor/Employment | Renewal | DOL | Individuals or households |
| 2025-04-25 | 2027 Farm to School Census | As part of the Farm to School Program's authorization, CFSD collects and disseminates information on farm to school activities throughout the country. The Census provides the only nationally representative data available on farm to school participation and activities in the United States. It also compiles detailed information about State- and school food authority (SFA)-level farm to school engagement. | Food Access | Renewal | USDA | SLT governments; businesses |
| 2025-04-23 | Survey of Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum for the Research Support Services for Employment of Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum (REYAAS) Project | This study (referred to as Research Support Services for Employment of Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum) will provide insightful data on the employment experiences of young adults on the autism spectrum, which policymakers and the autism community can use to inform program and policy changes that support the well-being of autistic people. | Disability | New | DOL | Individuals or households |