Which document is this? DD Form 2481, official title DD Form 2481, Request for Recovery of Debt Due the United States by Salary Offset, April 2006. What does it do? It exists to Request for Recovery of Debt Due the United States by Salary Offset. Everything on this page builds on those two facts.
Is there a version specific to your service? No. A DD number is issued at Department level, which is the whole point of the prefix — every military department and defense agency works from one identical document. Looking for a branch variant wastes time you do not have.
Who decides this form exists? not stated owns it; not stated directs its use. If someone told you to file this, the authority traces back to those.
How current is this? Edition not stated, publisher status not stated. That is the version described throughout this page.
What the form asks for
- 1. Paying office identification. a. Name.
- 1. b. Address, include street, city, state and zip code.
- 1.c. Contact name (last, first, middle initial).
- 1.d. E-mail address.
- 1.e. Telephone (DSN and commercial).
- 2. Employee identification. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. b. Address (street, city, state and zip code).
- 2. c. Date of birth.
- 2. d. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 3. c. Debt identification number, if any.
- 3. Debt information. a. Reason for debt.
- 3. b. Date right to collect accrued (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3.d. Original debt amount.
- 3.f. Interest due.
- If no interest due, enter N/A.
- 3.g. Penalty due.
- If no penalty due, enter N/A.
- If no administrative cost, enter N/A.
- 3.h. Administrative cost.
- 3.i. Total collection to be made.
- 3.e. Number of installments, line 1.
- 3.e.(1) At (rate of payment).
- 3.e.(2) Amount.
- 3.e. Number of installments, line 2.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 2 pages with roughly 65 fields to complete.
Why will not the xfdl file open? Because it is not a pdf. Xfdl belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, long the Department's electronic form format, and it needs IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent reader installed first.
Do you pay for these? No. Free download, every format. What should you avoid? Filling the form inside a browser tab; the fields frequently do not save.
Can you skip around the form? Better not to. The layout runs identification, then content, then certification, and entries near the bottom frequently take their meaning from what sits above them.
What if your copy is old? Replace it. Check the date printed on the form against not stated. Old blanks circulate for years in shared folders, and because a DD revision lands across the whole Department at once, the receiving office will be working from the new layout.
Where do you look up an unclear entry? The form face first, not stated second. And when the two disagree? not stated controls.
What happens after you finish? It routes to the office specified in not stated or in local guidance. And your own record? Save a duplicate first; nobody regrets having one.
What if DD Form 2481 points to another form? Search the series and number. Because the DD sequence is common to every military department, no branch qualifier is needed to land on the right file.
Why do some instructions cite both a DA and a DD form? Because the procedure touches both systems, not because the forms are related. Service forms answer to a service proponent; DD forms answer to not stated or another Department office. The sequences were never aligned.
How often does a form like this change? Unpredictably — revision follows directive changes, altered collection requirements and updated notice language. What is the practical defence? Verifying not stated every time you download rather than trusting a saved copy.
Will your completed form be accepted? That is not a question this page can answer. What you have here is a published Department of Defense document, a description of it and instructions for filling it out. Nothing on the page is legal advice, and nothing here determines what any office does with a submission. Where do the remaining questions go? To not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2481?
- DD Form 2481, Request for Recovery of Debt Due the United States by Salary Offset, April 2006
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?