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Department of Defense form 1842. Official designation: DD Form 1842, Claim for Loss of or Damage to Property Incident to Service, May 2000. Purpose: Claim for Loss of or Damage to Personal Property Incident to Service. Current edition not stated, status not stated.
Issued under not stated, with not stated as proponent. A DD number marks a Department-wide instrument: the same blank form serves every military department and the defense agencies, rather than one service alone.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
When the form is filed is a matter of not stated and local instruction. The description here covers the document itself and how to obtain a copy.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 2 pages and contains approximately 39 fillable fields.
All formats download free of charge. Pdf files open in any modern reader; interactive fields behave most predictably in a desktop application, less so in browser viewers.
What the form asks for
- 1. Name of claimant (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Branch of service.
- 3. Rank or grade.
- 4. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 5. Home address (street, city, state and zip code).
- 6. Current military duty address, if applicable (street, city, state and zip code).
- 7. Home telephone nunber, include area code.
- 8. Duty telephone nunber, include area code/DSN.
- 9. Amount claimed.
- 10. Circumstances of loss or damage, explain in detail. Include date, place, and all relevant facts. Use additional sheets if necessary
- 11. Did you have private insurance covering your property? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 12. Have you made a claim against your private insurer? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 13. Has a carrier or warehouse firm involved paid you or repaired any of your property? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- Did any of the claimed items belong to the government or to someone other than you or your family member? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- Were any of the claimed items acquired or held for sale, or acquired or used in a private profession or business? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 17. Signature of claimant (or designated agent).
- 18. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 19. Procedure. X first box if small claims, second box if regular claims.
- Part 3 - Denial or supplemental payment (to be completed by Claims Office). 23. Mark X if Denial.
- 24. Mark X if Supplemental Payment.
- 24. Supplemental payment amount.
- 25. Signatures. a. Claims examiner.
- 25.b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 25.c. Signature of reviewing authority.
Completion runs in the order printed on the page: identifying data at the head, the body of the entry next, certification at the foot. Header data frequently governs what belongs in the fields below it.
The current edition is not stated. Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field correspondence. Edition date appears in the lower corner of the printed blank.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
After completion, the copy goes to the office designated by not stated or by local procedure. Retention of a personal copy is ordinary practice and costs nothing.
Cross-referenced forms are found through the numbering system. The DD sequence is Department-level and unified, which means a number cited on the page identifies one document across the whole Department.
Some procedures pair a DD form with a service form. The two numbering systems are separate — service forms answer to a service proponent, DD forms to not stated or another Department office — and a matching number in each system means nothing.
Forms are reissued for several reasons: directive revision, changed data requirements, updated notice language. Confirming not stated at the moment of download covers the risk.
The material here is descriptive. Nothing on the page constitutes legal or procedural advice, and no statement here determines whether a submitted form will be accepted. Such questions go to not stated, a servicing administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1842?
- DD Form 1842, Claim for Loss of or Damage to Property Incident to Service, May 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?