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DD Form 1096 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 1096, Military Pay and Allowance Claims Voucher, October 1957, used to Military Pay and Allowance Claim Voucher. The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 40 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
What the form asks for
- Press this reset button to clear the data from all fields
- Line 1. Explanation and description of claim.
- Line 2. Explanation and description of claim.
- Line 3. Explanation and description of claim.
- Line 4. Explanation and description of claim.
- Line 5. Explanation and description of claim.
- Accounting classification (appropriation symbol must be shown; other classification optional).
- Cash.
- Disbursing office voucher number.
- Name of service member.
- Service number.
- Voucher prepared at (paying office).
- Name and address of payee.
- Paid by.
- Line 1. Claim amount (in U. S. dollars and cents).
- Line 2. Claim amount.
- Line 3. Claim amount.
- Line 4. Claim amount.
- Line 5. Claim amount.
- Total claim amount. Value is automatically calculated from lines 1 through 5
- Line 1. Collections, fund or appropriation to be credited.
- Line 2. Collections, fund or appropriation to be credited.
- Line 3. Collections, fund or appropriation to be credited.
- Line 1. Collection amount.
Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1096?
- DD Form 1096, Military Pay and Allowance Claims Voucher, October 1957
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?