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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.
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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-05 | Standard Application Process (SAP) Records | NSF | This new system will be used for collecting and maintaining requests from researchers or other individuals applying for access to confidential data assets from participating federal agencies and units for evidence-building, statistical purposes. | Data Collection |
| 2026-01-05 | Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans Executive Order Reporting | SBA | An EO issued in August 2025 directed SBA and banking regulators to end the practice of "politicized or unlawful debanking," which it defines as the practice where banks and financial services providers, both independently and at the direction of federal regulators, freeze or close accounts, deny loans, and refuse services to “politically disfavored” people and businesses. This information collection is necessary to evidence SBA Lender compliance with this Executive Order. | Economy |
| 2026-01-05 | NASA and Treasury Data Sharing Agreement | NASA | NASA is entering into a new data sharing agreement with the Department of Treasury to share information from its Core Financial Management Records system for the purposes of identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments to an applicant for, or recipient of, Federal funds, including funds disbursed by a state in a state-administered, federally funded program. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-01-02 | Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services | DHS | This proposed rule would require submission of biometrics by any individual, regardless of age, filing or associated with an immigration benefit request, other request, or collection of information, unless exempted; expand biometrics collection authority upon arrest of a non-citizen; define “biometrics;” codify reuse requirements; codify and expand DNA testing, use and storage; establish an “extraordinary circumstances” standard to excuse a failure to appear at a biometric services appointment; modify how VAWA self-petitioners and T nonimmigrant status applicants demonstrate good moral character; and clarify biometrics collection purposes. DNA use changes include testing for "biological sex" and for genetic relationship between family members. | Immigration |
| 2025-12-31 | SBA Federal Agency Comment Form | SBA | This form is used by SBA to receive comments on regulatory and compliance actions from small entities regarding their disagreements with a Federal Agency action. SBA is revising the form to add questions about "debanking," likely in alignment with an EO issued in August 2025 directed SBA and banking regulators to end the practice of "politicized or unlawful debanking," which it defines as the practice where banks and financial services providers, both independently and at the direction of federal regulators, freeze or close accounts, deny loans, and refuse services to “politically disfavored” people and businesses. | Economy |
| 2025-12-29 | Juvenile Facility Census Program (JFCP) | DOJ/BJS | The JFCP will combine two prior collections: the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement and the Juvenile Residential Facility Census. Collectively, this new program will collect data on individual youth housed in facilities (including demographic details, placement characteristics, and length of stay), and information on resident services, facility features, and operations. According to the listing, the two data collections are being consolidated the attain cost savings and reduce respondent burden. | Juvenile Justice |
| 2025-12-29 | Determining Eligibility for Enrollment in Applicable State Health Subsidy Programs | HHS/CMS | Under this matching program, CMS will share data with state administering entities to determine applicants' eligibility for enrollment in applicable state health subsidy programs, including exemption from the requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage or from the individual responsibility payment. In addition, to avoid dual enrollment, information will be shared between CMS and AEs, and among AEs, for the purpose of verifying whether applicants and enrollees are currently eligible for or enrolled in a Medicaid/CHIP program. All information will be shared through a data services hub established by CMS to support the federally-facilitated health insurance exchange and state-based exchanges. Note that this notice was revised in a listing on 11/28 (https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-21394) and has an updated due date. In the updated notice, CMS clarified what categories of records would be shared, including identifying records; minimum essential coverage period records; Federal Tax Information (FTI) (household income and family size information); citizenship status records; birth and death information; disability coverage and income information; and imprisonment status records. The data elements CMS will receive from AEs may include: Social Security Number (if applicable), Last Name, First Name, and Date of Birth. The data elements the AEs will receive from CMS may include: Validation of SSN; Verification of citizenship or immigration status; Incarceration status; Eligibility and/or enrollment in certain types of MEC; Income, based on FTI, Title II benefits, and current income sources; Quarters of Coverage; and Death Indicator. | Healthcare |
| 2025-12-29 | CFTC Records Systems | CFTC | CFTC is modifying four Privacy Act systems of records by adding a new routine use to permit the disclosure of records to the Department of the Treasury. | Data Sharing |
| 2025-12-26 | DOD Records Systems | DOD | DOD is revising 18 of its records systems to permit disclosure of records to the Department of the Treasury for the purpose of identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments, consistent with applicable law. | Data Sharing |
| 2025-12-26 | SSA Records Notices | SSA | SSA is revising 19 of its records systems, including the Master Beneficiary File and Medicare Database File, to permit disclosure of data to the Department of Treasury to review SSA's payment and award eligibility through the Do Not Pay Working System for the purpose of identifying, preventing, or recouping fraud and improper payments. | Data Sharing |
| 2025-12-26 | SSA and IRS Data Sharing Agreement | SSA | This notice announces a data sharing program between IRS and SSA, under which the IRS will disclose IRS return information to SSA for use in verifying eligibility for, and the correct amount of, benefits to qualified aged, blind, and disabled individuals. Note that the listing indicates that this is the renewal of an existing data sharing program rather than a new program. | Data Collection |
| 2025-12-26 | Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise | OSTP | Through this RFI, OSTP seeks input from academia; private sector organizations; industry groups; state, local, and tribal governments; and other stakeholders regarding priorities for strengthening the science and technology (S&T) ecosystem to support both the expansion of scientific knowledge and the mechanisms to transition these discoveries into the marketplace. Specific questions in the RFI address public-private partnerships, business as drivers of innovation, regulations as barrier to innvoation, identifying scientific talent, fostering collaboration, and many other areas. | Science and Technology |
| 2025-12-26 | National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) | ED | This survey of state-level finance data for public education collects information on the 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. NCES is not making any changes to the survey at this time. | Education |
| 2025-12-26 | Optional Flexible Financial Assistance Survey | DOJ | This survey will ask limited questions about how and when survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking received flexible financial assistance, as well as information about the impact of financial assistance in pursuing safety and security for themselves and their families. | Violence |
| 2025-12-26 | Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) | DHS | These forms collect information on SEVP-certified schools and information on the F and M nonimmigrant students that the SEVP-certified schools admit into their programs of study. The forms are being revised to collect additional information from schools, including information on legal guardians of minor F and M students, the date of students' graduation/degree awarded, and clarifying details on the source and type of the financial support for F and M students, as well as information to indicate whether a student is engaging in online education or on-campus employment. | Immigration |
| 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 |
| 2025-12-24 | 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 |
| 2025-12-22 | 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 |
| 2025-12-22 | 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 | 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 |