Feds Tweak Paperwork for Refugee Trauma Support Programs
Published Date: 12/18/2025
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Summary
The Office of Refugee Resettlement wants to keep collecting info from groups helping survivors of torture to see how well their services work. They’re updating the forms to make reporting easier and clearer, and they want your thoughts by February 17, 2026. This helps make sure money and support reach the right people and programs stay on track.
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Ongoing reporting requirement for SOT grantees
If your organization is a Services for Survivors of Torture (SOT) grant recipient, you must continue to report aggregated demographic, programmatic, and outcome data using the Survivors of Torture Program Data Points (PDP) and the Program Performance Progress Report (PPR). The PDP is reported annually and PPR narrative and metrics are reported semi-annually, and reporting is done through the ORR Refugee Arrivals Data System (RADS).
Forms simplified; 30% reporting burden cut
ORR revised the PDP and PPR forms by removing twelve subcategories across two program indicators, adding one subcategory in another indicator, and reducing the frequency of reporting percentage-based outcomes. ORR says these changes reduced estimated reporting burden by 30% and reduced the estimated time per response from an average of 6 hours to an average of 4 hours per response.
Submission via ORR RADS IT platform
ORR requires that PDP data be reported through the ORR Refugee Arrivals Data System (RADS), an IT platform used for enhanced data collection and record keeping. Grant recipients must use RADS for their PDP submissions.
ORR will use data for reports and funding requests
ORR will use the collected PDP and PPR information in the aggregate to produce reports to stakeholders, including a required Report to Congress, and to prepare responses to funding requests. Your submitted aggregated data will feed those reports.
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