You need DD Form 1375, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Request for Payment of Funeral and/or Interment Expenses. Its official title is DD Form 1375, Request for Payment of Funeral and/or Interment Expenses, October 2003.
Next, check the edition. You want not stated, currently carried as not stated by the publisher. Then confirm the form applies to you — this is a Department of Defense form, so you use it whether you serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force or Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction.
Once you know the form fits, find out when you file it. not stated sets the requirement, and not stated maintains the form itself. Your own command or agency adds local timing on top of that, so ask your administrative office if the deadline matters to you.
Last in this stage, choose your method: complete it on screen, or print the blank form and fill it out in pen. The sections below take each route step by step.
Begin at the top and move down. Enter your identifying data first, then the body of the form, then the signature block. The sequence is printed in that order because entries below frequently follow from entries above.
Before your first entry, look at the corner of the page and compare the printed date with not stated. If they do not match, stop and download again. Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
If a particular field puzzles you, read the instructions printed on the form first, then go to not stated. When the two disagree, follow the directive.
Download the form
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 1 pages and about 31 entries.
Check your software before choosing xfdl. That format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, long used for Defense form distribution, and it needs the matching viewer. Get the viewer installed, then come back for the file.
All of it downloads free. When you are ready to work, do this: save the file locally, then open it in a full pdf application. Browsers often ignore field properties, and you can lose everything you typed.
What the form asks for
- 1. Military Activity preparing this form. a. Name.
- 1.b. Address. Street, City, State and ZIP Code.
- 2. Military activity form is to be mailed to for payment. a. Name.
- 2.b. Address. Street, City, State and ZIP Code.
- 3. Name of Decedent. Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial.
- 4. Pay Grade and/or Rank.
- 5. Service Number and/or Social Security Number.
- 6. Place of death. City, State, Country.
- 7. Date of Death. 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 8. Name of Claimant. Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial.
- 9. Relationship.
- 10. Funeral Home and/or National Cemetery. a. Name.
- 10.b. Address. Street, City, State and ZIP Code.
- 11. If Yes, enter name of contracting activity.
- 12. Cemetery, Mausoleum or other Disposition. a. Name.
- 12.b. Address. Street, City, State and ZIP Code.
- 14. Interment Costs. Amount claimed.
- 15. Funeral arrangement costs. Amount claimed.
- 16. Shipping cost of remains. Amount claimed.
- 17. Shipment of remains. a. Shipped from (City and State).
- 17.b. Shipped To. City and State.
- 18.a. Name of Payee (print or type).
- 18.b. Taxpayer ID number or SSN.
- 18.c. Address of Payee. Street, City, State and ZIP Code.
Submit the completed form through the channel not stated or your local guidance specifies. Save a copy for yourself before it leaves your hands, whether that means a scan, a photograph or a duplicate file.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
Finally, understand the limits of what you have read. This page distributes a published Department of Defense form and describes how to fill it out. It does not give legal or procedural advice, and it cannot promise any outcome for your particular case. For that, contact not stated, your administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1375?
- DD Form 1375, Request for Payment of Funeral and/or Interment Expenses, October 2003
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?