You have arrived looking for DD Form 2789. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Waiver/Remission of Indebtedness Application. Full title: DD Form 2789, Waiver/Remission of Indebtedness Application, 20140917 draft.
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.
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.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
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.
When you reach a Privacy Act Statement, read it before you continue. It tells you the legal authority for collecting your information, what the Department does with it, who else may see it, and whether you have to answer at all. That last point is worth knowing before you supply personal identifiers, not after.
Sign only after every other entry is complete. Use ink on a printed copy, or a credentialed digital signature — CAC-based, in a reader that handles it — on an electronic one. A typed name satisfies neither method. Enter the date next to it before you close the file.
Review before you submit. Look for a superseded edition, blank mandatory fields, illegible writing, dates in the wrong format, and an unsigned or undated certification.
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
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 6 pages and about 82 entries.
Choose pdf as your default. Next, click inside a box. A fillable pdf responds by outlining the field and letting you type; the text stays in the document when you save it. A printable pdf does not respond, which tells you to print the page and complete it by hand.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated 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?