You need DD Form 281A, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Voucher for Emergency or Extraordinary Expense Expenditures - Memorandum. Its official title is DD Form 281A, Voucher for Emergency or Extraordinary Expense Expenditures (Memorandum), January 2000..
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.
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.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
Look up an unclear item on the form face before anywhere else, then in not stated. Should the two texts conflict, the directive is the one you follow.
Download the form
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 1 pages, and you will complete roughly 38 fields.
Handle xfdl in two steps. First confirm you have IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible reader on your machine; ordinary pdf software will report the file as broken. Once the viewer is running, download and fill the form.
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
- 1. Disbursing Office voucher number.
- 2. Bureau voucher number.
- 3. Voucher prepared at (location).
- 4. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no separators).
- 5. Paid by (for use of paying office).
- 6. United States, DR, To (Payee).
- 7. Address (nclude zip code).
- 8. For emergency or extraordinary expense expenditures under appropriations listed below. a. Expenses incurred during the period (Fill in only if voucher covers reimbursement of funds actually expended). From:
- a. Expenses incurred during the period to:
- b. Appropriation chargeable, line 1.
- c. Amount.
- b. Appropriation chargeable, line 2.
- c. Amount.
- b. Appropriation chargeable, line 3.
- c. Amount.
- b. Appropriation chargeable, line 4.
- c. Amount.
- b. Appropriation chargeable, line 5.
- c. Amount.
- b. Appropriation chargeable, line 6.
- c. Amount.
- b. Appropriation chargeable, line 7.
- c. Amount.
- b. Appropriation chargeable, line 8.
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 281A 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.
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 281A?
- DD Form 281A, Voucher for Emergency or Extraordinary Expense Expenditures (Memorandum), January 2000.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?