FEMA's New Form for Employee Medical Accommodation Requests
Published Date: 2/11/2026
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FEMA is introducing a new medical form to help employees or job applicants request reasonable accommodations at work. This form collects info from doctors to make sure accommodations fit each person’s needs. If you want to comment, you’ve got until March 12, 2026, so don’t miss out!
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New FEMA Medical Form for Accommodations
FEMA is introducing a new Reasonable Accommodation Medical Request Form that employees or job applicants and their licensed health care providers must use to provide medical documentation when requesting workplace accommodations. FEMA estimates about 2,000 people will be asked to fill out the form annually, with 232 expected to respond, a total respondent burden of 116 hours per year, an estimated respondent cost of $7,901 annually, and an additional recordkeeping burden of about 2 hours per form. Comments on this information collection are due March 12, 2026.
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