You need DD Form 2558, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Authorization to Start, Stop, or Change an Allotment. Its official title is DD Form 2558, Authorization to Start, Stop or Change an Allotment, January 2015.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
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.
Finally, decide how you will complete it. You can type into a fillable file or print a blank and write by hand, and the rest of this page walks you through both paths in order.
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.
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.
Take the fields in order and answer all of them. Mark inapplicable items N/A instead of leaving white space. When you reach a date, copy the format shown on the form, since a reviewer reading a different convention may misread your entry entirely.
Stop at the Privacy Act Statement and read it through. You will find the authority for the collection, the principal purpose, the routine uses, and whether disclosure is voluntary or mandatory. Read it now, while you still have the choice of what to disclose.
Sign last, and sign properly. On paper that means ink in the signature block. Electronically it means a digital signature, usually applied with your Common Access Card in a reader that supports it. Typing your name into the field does not sign anything. Then add the date beside your signature — an unsigned or undated form is the most common reason one comes back.
Run a final pass over the form. The errors that send it back are the same ones every time: old edition, gaps in required fields, unreadable handwriting on a scan, non-conforming dates, no signature or no date.
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 25 entries.
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
- 1. Branch of service. Press space bar to mark X in first box if Air Force, second box if Army, third box if Marine Corps, or fourth box if Navy.
- 2. Name of allotter: last, first, middle initial.
- 4. Pay grade.
- 5. Address of allotter (Street or box number, city, state, and zip code).
- 6. Daytime telephone number, include area code.
- 7. Effective date: 4 digit year, 2 digit month.
- 8. Monthly amount of allotment.
- 9. Name of allottee: last, first, middle initial.
- 10. Allotment action. X first box if start, second box if stop, third box if change.
- 11. Term in months.
- 12. Credit line, if applicable.
- 13. Allotment class authorized. X first box if C - Charity/CFC, second box if D - Discretionary Allotments, third box if F - Charity - emergency/assistance fund contribution, fourth box if L - Repayment of loan to service organization, fifth box if N - NSLI or USGLI insurance premium, sixth box if T - Payment of debts to U.S. or delinquent taxes, or seventh box if Other.
- Specify other allotment class authorized.
- 14. Address of allottee: street or box number, city, state, and zip code.
- 15. Province and country, if foreign address.
- 16. Remarks.
- 17. Company code/financial institution routing transit number.
- 18. Account number or policy number.
- X first box if checking account, second box if savings.
- 19. Total class L amount.
- 20. Total class T amount.
- 22. Date: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 21. Signature of allotter.
- 3. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
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.
When DD Form 2558 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.
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 2558?
- DD Form 2558, Authorization to Start, Stop or Change an Allotment, January 2015
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?