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Treat DD Form 2788 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2788, Child Annuitant's School Certification, 20150226 draft. Function: Child Annuitant's School Certification. 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comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 42 fields. Everything below refines that choice.
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.
What the form asks for
- 1. Member's social security number.
- 2. Member's name: last, first, middle initial.
- 3. Annuitant's social security number.
- 4. Annuitant's name: last, first, middle initial.
- 5. If under age of majority, name of legal representative.
- 6. Date of Birth: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 7. Are you married? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second if no.
- 8. Are you currently attending school full time? X first box if yes, second if no.
- 10. If high school, expected date of completion: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 11.a. If other than high school, date term or semester began: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 11.b. Date term or semester ends:s 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, go to item 15.
- 9.a. Name of school.
- 9.b. School address, include zip code.
- 9.c. Telephone number of school. Include area code.
- 14.a. If other than high school, date term or semester began: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 14.b. Date term or semester ended: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 12. If not currently attending school full time: a. name of last school attended.
- 12.c. Telephone number, include area code.
- 12.b. Address, include zip code.
- 13. If high school, date of completion: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 15. Do you plan to attend school full time during the next 150 days? X first box if yes, second if no.
- 17.a. Date term or semester will begin: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 17.b. Date term or semester will end: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 18. Signature of annuitant or legal representative. Remember to obtain school official's certification on Page 2.
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.
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.
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.
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 2788?
- DD Form 2788, Child Annuitant's School Certification, 20150226 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?