What is DD Form 2660? It is a Department of Defense form titled DD Form 2660, Statement of Claimant Requesting Replacement Check, August 2015, and its job is straightforward: Statement of Claimant Requesting Recertified Check. That single line covers most of what people want to know before they download it.
Will you need a different form because of where you serve? No. DD forms are Department-wide instruments, and that scope is what separates them from service publications. One edition, all branches, defense agencies included.
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. Payee (Show business name or financial organization, if applicable).
- 2. Social security number (Or employee identification number). Include dashes.
- 3. Telephone number (include area code).
- 4. Email address.
- 6. Address to which check was mailed (including 9 digit zip code).
- 7. Correct mailing address (If different from item 6).
- 5. Account to be credited if item 1 is a financial organization.
- 8. Purpose for which check was issued. X if regular pay.
- X if travel pay.
- X if vendor pay.
- X if other.
- 6.d. Specify other purpose.
- 9. Approximate date due.
- 10. Check was: X first box if not received, second box if received but unusable.
- If received, X first box if lost, second if stolen, third if destroyed, fourth if mutilated, or fifth if canceled due to limited payability.
- 11. Was check endorsed? X first box if yes, second if no.
- 13. Date payee signs.
- 15. Date co-payee signs.
- 16.a. Check number.
- b. Date of check.
- c. Check amount.
- d. Issuing D S S N.
- e. Voucher number.
- 17. Disbursing Office remarks.
Download the form
What formats exist for this form? PDF. What is the scale of it? 2 pages and approximately 26 fields.
Why do two kinds of pdf exist? Because two kinds of user exist. One completes the form on screen and forwards a file; the other prints a blank and fills it by hand. The fillable release has interactive boxes, the printable release is a static image of the same page.
Is handwriting acceptable? Yes, but it is the weaker choice. Scanning flattens pen strokes and reproduction blurs them, while typed characters survive the whole chain intact. Print in capitals if you are working from a paper blank.
Is xfdl worth downloading? Only if you have the viewer. The format comes from IBM Lotus Forms, which carried Defense form distribution for a long stretch, and no ordinary pdf application will read it.
What does any of this cost? Nothing. Every format listed is a free download. One practical note: save the file and open it in a desktop pdf reader, because browser previews often ignore interactive fields and lose what you typed.
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.
Why does the edition matter so much here? Because DD forms are revised centrally. When the Department reissues one, it reissues it for all branches simultaneously, and the field layout can shift. Compare the printed date against not stated before you type anything.
Is the form its own instruction manual? Partly. The rest sits in not stated, which is also the authority where the two texts conflict.
Who receives it? The office not stated designates, subject to whatever local instruction your organization adds. What do you keep? A copy, made before the form leaves your hands.
Do you need to know which branch issued a related form? No. DD numbering is Department-wide and unified, which means the number on its own is a complete address for the document.
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.
Should you archive this file and reuse it next year? Better not. Forms are revised as directives are reissued, as data requirements shift and as statutory notice text is updated, and none of that reaches you directly. Download fresh, check the edition date.
Is any of this advice? No. This page distributes a published Defense form and explains its contents, which is a different thing from telling you whether your circumstances qualify or whether a reviewer will accept your copy. Direct questions of eligibility, applicability and procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2660?
- DD Form 2660, Statement of Claimant Requesting Replacement Check, August 2015
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?