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DD Form 2656-8 — DD Form 2656-8, SBP Automatic Coverage Fact Sheet, 20110106 draft

Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) Automatic Coverage Fact Sheet

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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2656-8 — DD Form 2656-8, SBP Automatic Coverage Fact Sheet, 20110106 draft — exists to Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) Automatic Coverage Fact Sheet, 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.

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.

Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.

Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 38 fields.

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. Member's Name (Last, First, Middle initial)
  • 2. Social Security Number. Do not include dashes.
  • 3. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 4. Are you married? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
  • 5. Do you have any dependent children? X first box if yes, second box if no.
  • 6.a. Spouse's name (last, first, middle initial).
  • 6.b. Social Security Number.
  • 6.c. Date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 6.d. Date of marriage (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 6.e. Place of marriage (city, county, state).
  • 7. Dependent children. a. Name (last, first, middle initial). Line 1 of 6.
  • 7.b. Child's social security number.
  • 7.c. Child's date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
  • 7.d. Relationship (natural, step, adopted, foster).
  • 7.a. Name of dependent child, line 2.
  • 7.b. Child's social security number.
  • 7.c. Child's date of birth.
  • 7.d. Relationship.
  • 7.a. Name of dependent child, line 3.
  • 7.b. Child's social security number.
  • 7.c. Child's date of birth.
  • 7.d. Relationship.
  • 7.a. Name of dependent child, line 4.
  • 7.b. Child's social security number.

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.

Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.

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.

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.

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 2656-8?
DD Form 2656-8, SBP Automatic Coverage Fact Sheet, 20110106 draft
Which edition is current?
Not stated by the publisher
Who is responsible for this form?
Not stated
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF

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