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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2558 — DD Form 2558, Authorization to Start, Stop or Change an Allotment, January 2015 — exists to Authorization to Start, Stop, or Change an Allotment, 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.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
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.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 25 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
Skip xfdl unless the viewer is already installed. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and still present in the set for that reason; ordinary pdf software reports it as unreadable.
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. Branch of service. Press space bar to mark X in first box if Air Force, second box if Army, third box if Marine Corps, or fourth box if Navy.
- 2. Name of allotter: last, first, middle initial.
- 4. Pay grade.
- 5. Address of allotter (Street or box number, city, state, and zip code).
- 6. Daytime telephone number, include area code.
- 7. Effective date: 4 digit year, 2 digit month.
- 8. Monthly amount of allotment.
- 9. Name of allottee: last, first, middle initial.
- 10. Allotment action. X first box if start, second box if stop, third box if change.
- 11. Term in months.
- 12. Credit line, if applicable.
- 13. Allotment class authorized. X first box if C - Charity/CFC, second box if D - Discretionary Allotments, third box if F - Charity - emergency/assistance fund contribution, fourth box if L - Repayment of loan to service organization, fifth box if N - NSLI or USGLI insurance premium, sixth box if T - Payment of debts to U.S. or delinquent taxes, or seventh box if Other.
- Specify other allotment class authorized.
- 14. Address of allottee: street or box number, city, state, and zip code.
- 15. Province and country, if foreign address.
- 16. Remarks.
- 17. Company code/financial institution routing transit number.
- 18. Account number or policy number.
- X first box if checking account, second box if savings.
- 19. Total class L amount.
- 20. Total class T amount.
- 22. Date: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 21. Signature of allotter.
- 3. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
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.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
Route it where not stated or local procedure directs, and keep a copy first. On a Department form the receiving office is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint command — which makes recovering a lost original slower than it would be internally.
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.
Where a procedure cites both a service form and a DD form, the two are unconnected. Service numbering answers to a service proponent, DD numbering to not stated or another Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Matching numbers mean nothing whatever.
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.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2558?
- DD Form 2558, Authorization to Start, Stop or Change an Allotment, January 2015
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?