Bureau of Labor Statistics - anyone else got an email from them?

[Catherine]

I have two emails purportedly from BLS this morning, for an "annual refiling survey." They look legit, and have a web ID and a password in separate emails. Yes, I can type in a link rather than click. The most suspicious item in the first paragraph is the "reduce costs and save tax dollars" which I have never, ever, seen any legitimate government agency give a dingleberry about. (Maybe that's a DOGE thing, suddenly, lol.)

[Catherine]

They have an FAQ page here https://www.bls.gov/respondents/ars/faqs.htm found via search engine.

Looks legit, I guess, but sheesh they want us to be suspicious of everything, then also send out-of-the-blue emails wanting people to click on links. 

[Lee B]

I fill out a number of different BLS Surveys for my business clients.

Some of them are simple and some of them are a very long PITA!

[Tax Prep by Deb]

I have also done them, but never received an email only paper requests with website and log in information to submit online.

[PapaJoe]

I get these occasionally. Got two by email last week.

[Lion EA]

Just received a large paper packet in the mail from USDA re Tenure, Ownership, and Transition of Agricultural Land for some farmland I inherited in IL. Very detailed and intrusive. But I inherited the land which for a while was owned together with my cousins who live in IL and farmed the land, so I knew little except to receive my K-1. It was divided at some point, but I continue to rely on the counsel of my cousins, plus we're all old now and use sharecroppers so I get a check as well as corn and soybeans which I sell where they suggest. This "mandatory" 12-page packet with at least 3 pages of instructions will be a time suck. Worse than the short-form biz census forms, maybe about as bad as the long-form biz census which I worked on for a client a couple years ago. I wish the government would concentrate on raising income and spending less instead of making us citizens give intrusive details about our lives.