Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 592. First, know what you are filling: Payroll for Personal Services Certification and Summary. The document is titled DD Form 592, Payroll for Personal Services Certification and Summary, September 1970..
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.
Then settle the schedule. You are working under not stated, with not stated responsible for the document, and your organization layers its own deadlines on that. Ask before you assume a date.
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.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
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 1 pages and about 108 entries.
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
- D O voucher number.
- Bureau voucher number.
- Page number.
- Department or establishment.
- Bureau, division or office.
- Location.
- Period of this roll (from - to).
- Paid by (for use of paying officer).
- Pursuant to authority vested in me, I certify that within payroll in fill in number of pages here, is correct and proper for payment and that sufficient funds are available to cover the gross appropriation charges shown below.
- Signature of payroll certifying officer, sign original only.
- Date.
- Official title.
- Signature of certifying officer, sign original only.
- Date.
- Official title.
- Net payments to employees: amount in US dollars.
- Payroll deductions. Civil service retirement: accounting classification.
- Amount.
- Federal insurance contributions act: accounting classification.
- Amount.
- Federal withholding tax: accounting classification.
- Amount.
- Health benefits: accounting classification.
- Amount.
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 592 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.
Plan to repeat this step whenever the form comes up again. Revisions follow directive changes, changes in what data is collected, and updates to notice language. Since nobody notifies you, check not stated at download and you have covered it.
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 592?
- DD Form 592, Payroll for Personal Services Certification and Summary, September 1970.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?