Download the form
DD Form 2656-2 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2656-2, SBP Termination Request, April 2009, used to Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) Termination Request. 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.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 19 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
What the form asks for
- Section 2. Retired member identification. 1. Name: last, first, middle initial.
- 2. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 3. Retirement date (date retired pay commences): 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- Section 3 - Termination Request. 4. Retiree. a. Signature
- 4. b. Date signed. 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day
- Section 4 - Spouse concurrence. 5. Spouse. a. Signature
- 5.b. Date signed: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 5. c. Printed name: last, first, middle initial
- 5. d. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 6. a. Witness name: last, first, middle initial.
- 6. b. Military installation, If applicable
- 6. c. Title
- 6. d. Signature.
- 6. e. Date signed: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 6. f. Street address
- 6. g. City
- 6. h. State
- 6. i. Zip code
- Press this reset button to clear the data from all fields
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 2656-2?
- DD Form 2656-2, SBP Termination Request, April 2009
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?