# Federal Agencies Face Accommodation Backlogs

Federal employees, including IRS employees, have described prolonged reasonable-accommodation reviews and inconsistent handling of interim accommodations while formal requests remain pending. Community reports also describe requests moving between systems with missing history, pressure to accept alternatives, and extensive medical-information requests; these accounts are not independently verified. The signal identifies no procurement action, solicitation, contract value, or formal agency policy change, so its relevance to procurement professionals is limited to awareness of reported workforce-administration concerns rather than a confirmed contracting opportunity.

- The reports concern the IRS and other federal workplaces; Treasury is also listed among the extracted entities, but no specific Treasury action is described.
- No contract, vendor, funding, or acquisition requirement is identified. The signal does not establish demand for a contractor or a procurement need.
- Contractors supporting federal agencies should not treat these community reports as confirmed requirements or formal policy; no procurement action is specified in the signal.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Published:** September 30, 2026

### Government Entities
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury)

### Key Quotes
> Where I'm at they just give the interim and don't force renewals on it and just let people chill on it but when they finally get through the backlog to give the actual one they're apparently asking for a lot of medical information to the point where a couple people got uncomfortable with the amount they're asking and backed out of the process.
> — Commenter

> Once my current interim expires, it will not be extended even though my formal RA request is still actively under review and has not been denied.
> — Original poster

### Sources
- [How are other agencies handling Reasonable Accommodation (RA) backlogs and interims?](https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1wtu4tq/how_are_other_agencies_handling_reasonable) - reddit-fednews