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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. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-17 | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Work Requirements and Screening | This form incorporates changes to screening protocols to determine whether applicants are eligible for exemptions from the general work requirements and exceptions from the able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD) time limit. All changes are being made pursuant to the December 2024 Final Rule on SNAP work requirements. | Food Access | Revision | USDA | States and individuals |
| 2025-07-17 | ACF Matching Program; Privacy Act of 1974 | This notice announces a new data matching program under which ACF will compare name and Social Security number (SSN) combinations of unemployment compensation (UC) applicant and recipient records from each state workforce agency (SWA) to new hire and quarterly wage information maintained in the OCSS National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) system of records. Any match results from the comparison are returned to help the SWAs with establishing or verifying UC applicants' and recipients' eligibility for assistance, reducing payment errors, and maintaining program integrity, including determining whether duplicate participation exists or if an applicant or recipient resides in another state. The SWAs may also use the NDNH match information for secondary purposes, such as updating UC recipients' reported participation in work activities, updating recipients' and their employers' contact information, administering the SWAs' tax compliance function, and complying with DOL reporting requirements. | Public Benefits | New | ACF | N/A |
| 2025-07-18 | ACF Matching Program; Privacy Act of 1974 | ACF is re-establishing a matching program between HHS/ACF/OCSS and state agencies administering the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The matching program compares state TANF agency records with new hire, quarterly wage, and unemployment insurance information maintained in the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH). The outcomes of the comparisons help state agencies to establish and verify eligibility for applicants and recipients of TANF benefits, reduce TANF benefit errors, and maintain program integrity. | Public Benefits | New | HHS/ACF | N/A |
| 2025-07-21 | Records Disposition | NARA publishes notice of certain Federal agency requests for records disposition authority (records schedules) for records schedules in which agencies propose to dispose of records they no longer need to conduct agency business. Through this notice, NARA invites comments on 18 disposition requests, including BOP inmate monitoring records, DOJ debt collection records, and records from HHS's National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses. | N/A | New | NARA | N/A |
| 2025-07-21 | National Survey of Digital Health Companies | The Cures Act aimed to advance the exchange of electronic health information by promoting patient access through standardized application programming interfaces (APIs). Ongoing assessment of these technologies is crucial to examining the impacts of the Cures Act's health IT provisions and is critical to informing the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's (ASTP/ONC's) policy efforts. | Healthcare | New | HHS | Digital health companies |
| 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 |
| 2025-08-01 | 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 |
| 2025-08-01 | 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 |
| 2025-08-04 | 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 |
| 2025-08-04 | 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 |
| 2025-08-08 | 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 |
| 2025-08-11 | Nurse Corps Scholarship Program | The Nurse Corps SP collects data to determine an applicant's eligibility for the program, monitor a participant's continued enrollment in a school of nursing, monitor the participant's compliance with the Nurse Corps SP service obligation, and prepare annual reports to Congress. This notice announces minor changes to this information collection, including replacing “gender” with “sex” and a discontinuation of the collection of resumes within the application as they are not used to determine eligibility. | Healthcare | Revision | HHS | Individuals |
| 2025-08-11 | Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students With Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID) Evaluation Protocol | In 2020, ED entered into a grant with Umass Boston to conduct 22 model demonstration projects aimed at creating inclusive comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs for students with intellectual disabilities known as Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSIDs). Although it is unclear what changes are being made, the listing indicates that NCC has streamlined and simplified the previously approved evaluation system for the TPSID programs. | Education | Revision | ED | Program participants |
| 2025-08-12 | WIC Tribal Organizations and U.S. Territories Study | WIC is a food access program intended to improve the health of nutritionally at-risk women and children. This study aims to inform FNS about variations in operations among Tribal Organizations, U.S. territories, and geographic States administering WIC. The results of the study may inform efforts to improve WIC program operations and participant services. | Food Access | New | USDA | Tribal organizations and US territories |
| 2025-08-12 | Family Self-Sufficiency | The FSS Program promotes the development of local strategies to coordinate public and private resources that help housing choice voucher program participants, public housing tenants, and tenants in the Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) program obtain employment that will enable participating families to achieve economic independence and reduce dependence on welfare assistance and rental subsidies. This notice announces changes to the forms associated with this program, but doesn't clarify what changes are being made. | Housing | Revision | HUD | PHAs |
| 2025-08-12 | Campus Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA) Survey | This survey is a collection tool to compile the annual data on college athletics. The data is collected from the individual institutions by ED and is made available to the public through the Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool as well as the College Navigator. | Education | Renewal | ED | Universities, State Governments |
| 2025-08-15 | Standard Application Process Common Form | The Evidence Act required OMB to establish a Standard Application Process (SAP) for requesting access to certain confidential data assets. The SAP Portal is an online interface connecting applicants seeking data with a catalog of data assets owned by the federal statistical agencies and units as well as an application to apply for those assets. The SAP Portal is not a data repository or warehouse; confidential data assets continue to be stored in secure data access facilities owned and hosted by the federal statistical agencies and units. This form is used by researchers and other data users to apply to access confidential data assets held by 15 federal statistical agencies or units for the purposes of developing evidence. | Data Collection | Extension | NSF | Researchers, States |