You need DD Form 2883, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Credit Worthiness Evaluation. Its official title is DD Form 2883, Credit Worthiness Evaluation, July 2004.
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.
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.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.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
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 2 pages and about 24 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
- Section 1 - Personal identifying information. 1. Name (last, first, middle initial, suffix (Jr., Sr., etc.)).
- 2. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 3. Employment status. Press space bar to mark X in first box if active, second box if reserve, third box if guard, or fourth box if civilian.
- 4. Military rank/civilian grade.
- 5. Work telephone number (include area code).
- 6. Address (street, apartment/suite number, city, state, zip code).
- 7. Billing address (if different from item 6).
- 8. E-mail address.
- 9. U.S. Citizen? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- Section 3 - Certification. 17. Signature.
- 18. Date.
- 19. Card type. X first box if purchase, second box if Fleet, third box if CBA travel, fourth box if air, or fifth box if IBA travel.
- 20. Central account number.
- 21. Account hierarchy number.
- 22. Organization/unit name.
- 23. FIPS code.
- 24. Commander/supervisor. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 24.b. Telephone number (include area code).
- 24.c. Address (if different from applicant).
- 25. APC. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 25.b. Signature.
- 25.c. Date.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
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.
Watch out for one trap here. If your instructions cite a DA form as well, do not assume the numbers are connected. DA numbering belongs to the Army alone; DD numbering belongs to the Department and is administered by not stated or another Department office. The same number in each system means two unrelated forms, so read the prefix before you download.
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 2883?
- DD Form 2883, Credit Worthiness Evaluation, July 2004
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?