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.
Showing 20 of 155 results
| Due Date | Collection | Summary | Main Issues | New/Renew | Agency | Respondents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-09 | Proposed Designation of Database to the Do Not Pay Working System | The Do Not Pay Working System is a centralized portal through which users can search multiple databases to obtain information about potential payees and awardees. OMB designates databases for inclusion in the Working System. This notice designates the VA Benefits Enterprise Platform (BEP) database for use in the Do Not Pay Working System with the Public Assistance Reporting Information System (PARIS), which will provide State Public Assistance Agencies (SPAAs) with VA compensation and pension data on a periodic basis to use in determining the eligibility of public assistance applicants and recipients for benefits under Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and other general assistance programs. | Public Benefits | New | OMB | N/A |
| 2025-07-09 | Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network Community Arts Engagement Subgranting Program Evaluation Forms | The Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network seeks to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military and veteran populations exposed to trauma, and for their families and caregivers through clinical and non-clinical programs. The forms associated with this listing include a pre-post Participant Survey, an Arts Engagement Facilitator Survey, and interviews with grantees, partners, arts engagement facilitators, and program participants. Evaluation results will provide actionable evidence to support current and future iterations of the grant program and Creative Forces Community Engagement grantees. | Evaluation | New | NEA | Grantees |
| 2025-07-09 | Sterilization of Persons in Federally Assisted Family Planning Projects | This consent form solicits information to assure voluntary and informed consent to persons undergoing sterilization in programs of health services which are supported by federal financial assistance administered by the United States Public Health Service (PHS). | Reproductive Justice | Renewal | HHS | Individuals |
| 2025-07-09 | U.S. Election Assistance Commission 2025 Data Summit: Election Administration by the Numbers | During the meeting, election officials, academics, and other key stakeholders will participate in panel discussions on election administration and related innovative and groundbreaking data and research. Topics will include the results of the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS), election funding, voter list maintenance, workforce development, and more. | Voting Rights | N/A | EAC | N/A |
| 2025-07-07 | Stepped and Tiered Rent Demonstration Evaluation, Phase 2 | HUD has selected 10 Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) to participate in the second cohort of the Moving to Work (MTW) Expansion, Stepped and Tiered Rent Demonstration (STRD). Five PHAs are implementing a stepped rent and five PHAs are implementing a tiered rent. HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) is evaluating the impacts of those alternative rent policies, using a randomized controlled trial. | Housing | New | HUD | PHAs |
| 2025-07-07 | BLS Wage Records Data Application | BLS has started a program to exchange data about the employment and wages of individuals that was not previously provided from employers or State UI programs under the QCEW. The program promotes the interchange of information, from participating States who have entered into MOUs with the BLS. The additional wage records data will be compiled into a multi-state longitudinal database and the data will be used to improve existing BLS data products and to explore the creation of new ones. | Labor/Employment | New | DOL | SLT governments |
| 2025-07-07 | National Directory of New Hires | State child support agencies use the NDNH information 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. Specific State and Federal agencies also use NDNH information for authorized purposes to help administer certain programs, prevent overpayments, detect fraud, assess benefits, and recover funds. Revisions seem technical. | Labor/Employment | Revision | HHS | Employers, SLT governments |
| 2025-07-07 | Formative Data Collections for Evaluation, Research, and Evidence-Building | SBA intends to design and conduct evidence-building activities of SBA programs. SBA's evidence-building activities include formative evaluations of existing programs, process, and new initiatives; logic model development and testing; process or journey mapping; research syntheses; survey, questionnaire, and metric development; analysis; and foundational fact-finding through descriptive and exploratory studies. | Evaluation | New | SBA | Various |
| 2025-07-07 | Annual Survey of School System Finances | The Annual Survey of School System Finances is a comprehensive source of prekindergarten through 12th grade public elementary-secondary school system finance data collected on a nationwide scale using uniform definitions, concepts, and procedures. The collection covers the revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets of all public elementary-secondary school systems. | Education | Extension | Census | SLT governments |
| 2025-07-07 | Veterans Engagement Action Center (VEAC) Surveys | The VEAC gathers feedback from Veterans, Active Military, Guard/Reservist, Family members, caregivers, providers, and survivors. The VEAC then provides that feedback to VA leaders to measure the success of the outreach event and measure the ease, effectiveness, emotion, and trust from the participants as they exit. | Veterans | Revision | VA | Individuals |
| 2025-07-04 | Higher Education Research and Development Survey | This survey is used to produce statistics on R&D expenditures by source of funding, type of R&D (basic research, applied research, or development), and field of research, with separate data requested on research equipment by field. Further breakdowns are collected on funds passed through to subrecipients and funds received as a subrecipient, and on R&D expenditures by field from specific federal agency sources. The survey also requests total R&D expenditures funded from foreign sources, R&D within an institution's medical school, clinical trial expenditures, R&D by type of funding mechanism (contracts vs. grants), and R&D by cost category (salaries, equipment, software, etc.). In addition, the survey requests headcounts and full-time equivalents of R&D personnel (researchers, R&D technicians, and R&D support staff). | Education | Extension | NSF | Higher Education institutions |
| 2025-07-03 | Selective Service Systems of Record Notice | The Selective Service System is modifying its system for Reasonable Accommodation, Religious Exception, and Medical Exception Health Records, which is designed to collect records related to the processing of requests from employees and applicants for employment who are seeking a reasonable accommodation based upon disability under the Rehabilitation Act or for a religious belief, observance, or practice underthe Civil Rights Act or the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993; or other applicable law. It is unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Religious Liberty/Exemptions | Revision | SSS | N/A |
| 2025-07-03 | Behavioral Health Integration Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program Outcome Measures | This program supports evidence-based projects that use telehealth technologies through telehealth networks in rural and underserved areas to: (1) improve access to integrated behavioral health services in primary care settings, and (2) expand and improve the quality of health information available to health care providers by evaluating the effectiveness of integrating telebehavioral health services into primary care settings and establishing an evidence-based model that can assist health care providers. | Mental Health | New | HHS | Grantees |
| 2025-07-02 | DOJ Systems of Records Notice | This SORN modifies the records systems associated with DOJ's Security Monitoring and Analytics Service (SMAS), which provides DOJ-managed information technology (IT) service offerings to other federal agencies wishing to leverage DOJ's cybersecurity services. The listing includes a number of changes, primarily to the Users and Purposes section of the SORN, expanding routine uses to include several kinds of law enforcement investigations. | Criminal Justice | Revision | DOJ | N/A |
| 2025-06-27 | Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program | The purpose of this matching program is to verify the eligibility of Lifeline and ACP applicants and subscribers by determining whether they receive SNAP and Tribal TANF benefits administered by the Arizona Department of Economic Security. | Public Benefits | New | FCC | N/A |
| 2025-06-26 | Home Study and Post Release Services Provided to Unaccompanied Alien Children | This collection includes a half dozen forms associated with provision of care to unaccompanied children. The listing makes global changes to all of the forms, including adding questions about gang affiliation, revising gender questions to limit response options to M/F, and adding the term "Alien" wherever the forms discuss unaccompanied children. | Immigration | Revision | HHS/ORR | UAC Bureaus |
| 2025-06-26 | Unaccompanied Alien Children Bureau Assessments for Children and Sponsors | This collection includes more than a dozen forms used in assessing unaccompanied children and their potential sponsors. Makes several global changes to the forms, including replacing "gender" with "sex" and limiting the response options to those questions and inserting "Alien" throughout. Removes sexual orientation as well as gender identity. Adds language on gang affiliation. | Immigration | Revision | HHS/ORR | UAC Bureaus |
| 2025-06-26 | Unaccompanied Alien Children Bureau Incident Reporting | This listing makes dozens of changes to the forms used to report an incident involving an unaccompanied immigrant child. Most of the changes seem to improve the form, though notably: in one form, "gang affiliation reported" is added to a list of "External Threats to a UAC," and the gender question is revised to be called sex and to include only male/female response options. | Immigration | Revision | HHS/ORR | UAC Bureaus |
| 2025-06-24 | Unaccompanied Alien Children Sponsor Application Packet | These forms all ORR to assess the suitability of potential sponsors for unaccompanied undocumented children. Note this information collect was previously titled Family Reunification Application for Sponsors of Unaccompanied Alien Children and has been retitled at the direction of ORR leadership. Primary changes are to the removal of "family reunification" language and the current Administration has requested more comprehensive information on sponsor income to support suitability assessments as part of the sponsorship application. In addition to the information already collected in form SAP-3, ORR is planning to prepare an Affidavit of Support that will be completed by the sponsor and provide certification that the sponsor has the financial means to provide for the child's physical and mental well-being | Immigration | Revision | HHS | Potential sponsors of unaccompanied alien children, their adult household members, and alternate adult caregivers |
| 2025-06-23 | Pre-Test for the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 2027 | This Pretest will enable BLS to examine how the survey systems, protocols, and procedures perform with the target population, so that any needed adjustments can be made prior to Round 1. The Pretest will also include some experiments to test survey procedures, the results of which will enable BLS to maximize efficiency and minimize respondent burden in NLSY27 screening and Round 1 data collection. | Labor/Employment | New | DOL | Individuals or households |