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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2481 — DD Form 2481, Request for Recovery of Debt Due the United States by Salary Offset, April 2006 — exists to Request for Recovery of Debt Due the United States by Salary Offset, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
Requirement traces to not stated; the form belongs to not stated. Everything about schedule sits below that in local instruction, which is where to ask if a date matters.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Formats: PDF. Length 2 pages, approximately 65 entries.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- 1. Paying office identification. a. Name.
- 1. b. Address, include street, city, state and zip code.
- 1.c. Contact name (last, first, middle initial).
- 1.d. E-mail address.
- 1.e. Telephone (DSN and commercial).
- 2. Employee identification. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. b. Address (street, city, state and zip code).
- 2. c. Date of birth.
- 2. d. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 3. c. Debt identification number, if any.
- 3. Debt information. a. Reason for debt.
- 3. b. Date right to collect accrued (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3.d. Original debt amount.
- 3.f. Interest due.
- If no interest due, enter N/A.
- 3.g. Penalty due.
- If no penalty due, enter N/A.
- If no administrative cost, enter N/A.
- 3.h. Administrative cost.
- 3.i. Total collection to be made.
- 3.e. Number of installments, line 1.
- 3.e.(1) At (rate of payment).
- 3.e.(2) Amount.
- 3.e. Number of installments, line 2.
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
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.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
Revision follows directive changes, changed data requirements and amended notice language, unannounced. Verify not stated each time rather than trusting a saved copy — the cost of the check is seconds.
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 2481?
- DD Form 2481, Request for Recovery of Debt Due the United States by Salary Offset, April 2006
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?