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DD Form 2789 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2789, Waiver/Remission of Indebtedness Application, 20140917 draft, used to Waiver/Remission of Indebtedness Application. 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.
Requirement traces to not stated; the form belongs to not stated. Everything about schedule sits below that in local instruction, which is where to ask if a date matters.
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.
Formats: PDF. Length 6 pages, approximately 82 entries.
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. Type of claim (REQUIRED). Press space bar to mark X in first box if waiver, second box if remission.
- 3. Rank/Grade (REQUIRED).
- 4. Social Security Number (REQUIRED).
- 5. Agency/Service (REQUIRED). X only one box: first if Army, second if Navy, third if Air Force, fourth if Marine Corps, fifth if Other.
- Specify other agency or service.
- 6. Status (REQUIRED). X first box if active, second box if guard/reserve, third box if retired, fourth box if separated, fifth box if DoD civilian, or fifth box if annuitant.
- 6. If active, enter end of enlistment period date: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators.
- 6. If guard or reserve, enter end of enlistment period date.
- If retired, enter date of retirement.
- If separated, enter separation date.
- If civilian, enter Service Computation Date.
- 7. Current complete mailing address (REQUIRED). Street, City, State, Zip Code.
- 8. Place of assignment or employment.
- 9.b. Home telephone. Include area code.
- 9.c. E-mail address (REQUIRED).
- 10. Type of debt or pay and allowance erroneously paid.
- 11. Gross debt amount (REQUIRED).
- 12. State the date and how you first became aware of debt or erroneous payment (REQUIRED). Attach notification, if available.
- 13. If you were aware of debt or erroneous payment, explain the actions you took to correct the situation (REQUIRED).
- 14. Reason for requesting waiver or remission and why you feel it should be approved (REQUIRED). Financial hardship applies only to remission and if claimed, a financial statement must be attached.
- 15. For annuitants, provide name, SSN and date deceased of military member/sponsor (REQUIRED).
- 16. Attach copies of all pertinent documents (REQUIRED), such as Request for B A H, Statement of Service, Separation Worksheet, DD Form 214, Travel Voucher, Notification of Personnel Action. If not available, explain.
- 17. (REQUIRED). a. If military or civilian, did you receive leave and earnings statement(s)? Mark one box: first if yes, second if no.
- b. If military or civilian, did you request them on EMSS/MYPAY? Mark one box: first if yes, second if no.
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.
Fill top to bottom. Identification, then substance, then certification — lower fields commonly derive from the header, and completing out of order produces internal contradictions a reviewer will catch.
Complete every field, N/A where an item does not apply, dates exactly as the form prescribes. A DD form crosses service lines, and a convention obvious in one branch is not obvious in the next.
Privacy Act Statement first, personal entries second. It names the authority for the collection, what the data is for, who else routinely sees it, and whether you have to answer at all.
Sign last, in ink or with a credentialed digital signature. A typed name in a signature field certifies nothing. CAC-based signing is the usual electronic method where the receiving system supports it. Date the block immediately — unsigned and undated certifications account for a large share of returns.
Final pass, against the standing defect list: superseded edition, empty mandatory fields, handwriting illegible after scanning, non-conforming dates, missing signature or date. For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
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.
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.
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 2789?
- DD Form 2789, Waiver/Remission of Indebtedness Application, 20140917 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?