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Treat DD Form 2560 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2560, Advance Pay Certification/Authorization, March 1990. Function: Advance Pay Certification/Authorization. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
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.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 42 fields.
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
- Part 1 - Request. 1. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 3. Grade.
- 4. I request: Press space bar to mark X in first box if a. one month advance pay, or second box if b. more than 1 month but less than 3 months basic pay less deductions.
- If b., specify amount.
- 5. I request a repayment schedule of: X first box if a. 12 months or less, or second box if b. 13 - 24 months.
- If a., specify number of months.
- If b., specify number of months.
- 6. I request payment of the advance pay: X first box if a. within 30 days of PCS or 60 days after reporting to my next PDS, second box if b. 31 - 90 days before my PCS, or third box if c. 61 - 180 days after arrival at my PDS.
- 8.a. Amount, line 1.
- Amount, line 2.
- Amount, line 3.
- Amount, line 4.
- Amount, line 5.
- Amount, line 6.
- 9. Total expense amount.
- Part 2 - Certification of Expenses. 7. Expense. a. Line 1.
- 7.b. Expense, line 2.
- 7.c. Expense, line 3.
- 7.d. Expense, line 4.
- 7.e. Expense, line 5.
- 7.f. Expense, line 6.
- 10. Explanation of the circumstances where greater-than-normal expenses might be incurred or circumstances requiring an early or late payment of advance pay.
- Part 3 - Justification for more than 12 months payback. 11. Number of dependents.
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
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.
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.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
This page publishes a Defense document and explains its contents. It does not advise, does not rule on applicability, and determines nothing about how a completed form will be treated. Direct such questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2560?
- DD Form 2560, Advance Pay Certification/Authorization, March 1990
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?