You need DD Form 2653, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Involuntary Allotment Application. Its official title is DD Form 2653, Involuntary Allotment Application, November 2007.
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.
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.
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.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
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 31 fields to complete.
You will not be charged for any of these; the whole set is free. Before you start entering data, save the file to your computer and open it there. Fields behave far more reliably in a desktop reader than in a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- Section 1 - Identification. 1. Applicant. a. Name (provide whole name whether a person or business).
- c. Address. (1) Street and apartment or suite number.
- (2) City.
- (3) State.
- (4) Zip code (9 digit).
- 2. Service Member. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Social Security Number. Do not include dashes.
- c. Branch of service.
- d. Current duty assignment (if known).
- e. Current Address (if known). (1) Street and apartment or suite number.
- (2) City.
- (3) State.
- (4) Zip Code (9 digit).
- 3.a. Case number (As assigned by court).
- b. Name of original judgement holder (if different from applicant).
- c. Account number of debtor.
- d. Judgment Amount. (1) Dollar amount of judgment.
- (2) Dollar amount of interest owed to date of application (Only if awarded by the judgment).
- (3) Total dollar amount due (Total of sub-blocks (1) and (2)). .
- 4. I hereby certify that: a. (1) Press space bar to mark X if The judgment has not been amended, superseded, set aside, or satisfied;
- (2) Mark X if the judgment has been paid in part.
- (2) If paid in part, the total amount remaining to be paid is:
- 4.b.(1) Mark X if The judgment was issued while the member was not active duty.
- (2) Mark X If the judgment was issued while member was on active duty, that the member was present or represented by an attorney of the member's choosing in the proceedings.
With the form finished, route it to the office named in not stated or in your organization's own instruction. Keep a copy first. People rarely regret having one and frequently regret not having one.
If the form points you to another document, you can find it by number alone. DD numbering runs across the whole Department, so you do not need to work out which service issued it — one number, one form, everywhere.
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.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
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 2653?
- DD Form 2653, Involuntary Allotment Application, November 2007
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?