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DD Form 2498 — DD Form 2498, Report of Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of U.S. Citizen Civilian Employees, September 1999

Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of US Citizen Civilian Employees, Report of

Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 2498. First, know what you are filling: Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of US Citizen Civilian Employees, Report of. The document is titled DD Form 2498, Report of Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of U.S. Citizen Civilian Employees, September 1999.

Your second step is the edition, not stated, listed as not stated. Your third is scope. Because the number carries a DD prefix, you use the same blank as every other military department and defense agency; no service-specific version exists for you to hunt down.

After that, turn to timing. The requirement comes from not stated; the form is maintained by not stated. Local implementing instructions fill in the dates, so check with the office that will receive your copy.

Before you download, pick your approach — editable file or printed page. What follows covers the formats first, then the entries, then what you do afterward.

Start at the header. Complete your identification before anything else, then work through the main entries, then finish at the certification. Skipping around causes contradictions between the top of the form and the bottom.

Check the edition before you type a word. The date appears on the face of the form; it should read not stated. When it does not, discard the file and take a fresh copy from this page. Department-level revisions replace the blank across all services simultaneously, which means an old printout can be out of step everywhere.

For questions about a specific entry, check the form's own instructions, and if that does not settle it, open not stated. The directive controls where they differ.

Download the form

Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 2 pages, with approximately 200 fields to complete.

Take the pdf if you are unsure. Then check which kind you have: if the boxes highlight when you click them, you have a fillable pdf and can type straight into it, and your entries save with the file. If nothing highlights, you have a printable pdf — send it to a printer and use black ink.

Type when you can. Printed entries stay legible after the form is scanned, copied and forwarded, and handwriting often does not survive that trip. If you must write by hand, use block capitals and press firmly.

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.

Whichever you pick, you pay nothing — every format here is a free download. One last tip: open your pdf in a desktop reader rather than in a browser tab, because browser viewers sometimes drop the interactive fields you need.

What the form asks for

  • Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Alaska.
  • Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Alaska.
  • Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Alaska.
  • Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total Alaska.
  • Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Hawaii
  • Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Hawaii.
  • Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Hawaii.
  • Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total Hawaii.
  • Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total U S Territories.
  • Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total U S Territories.
  • Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total U S Territories.
  • Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total U S Territories.
  • Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total American Samoa.
  • Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total American Samoa.
  • Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total American Samoa.
  • Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total American Samoa.
  • Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Guam.
  • Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Guam.
  • Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Guam.
  • Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total Guam.
  • Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Johnston Atoll.
  • Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Johnston Atoll.
  • Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Johnston Atoll.
  • Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total Johnston Atoll.

Now that it is complete, send it where not stated or your local procedure says it goes. Before you do, make yourself a copy — scan it or save the file elsewhere. It costs you nothing and saves you the whole exercise if the original goes missing.

When DD Form 2498 references another form, search on the series and number. Because DD numbers are common to every military department, the number by itself identifies exactly one document.

Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.

Plan to repeat this step whenever the form comes up again. Revisions follow directive changes, changes in what data is collected, and updates to notice language. Since nobody notifies you, check not stated at download and you have covered it.

One thing this page does not do: tell you whether your submission will be accepted. We publish the document and explain how to complete it, and that is where our role ends. Nothing here is legal advice. Take questions about eligibility, applicability or procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.

Questions and answers

What is DD Form 2498?
DD Form 2498, Report of Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of U.S. Citizen Civilian Employees, September 1999
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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