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DD Form 2498 — DD Form 2498, Report of Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of U.S. Citizen Civilian Employees, September 1999

Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of US Citizen Civilian Employees, Report of

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Defense Department form, series DD, number 2498. Full title: DD Form 2498, Report of Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of U.S. Citizen Civilian Employees, September 1999. Function: Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of US Citizen Civilian Employees, Report of. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher 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.

Submission follows the schedule set by not stated and by local implementing procedures. This page provides the blank form for download and general orientation only.

The download set covers PDF. Document length is 2 pages with about 200 entry fields.

The xfdl release corresponds to IBM Lotus Forms. This format carried Department-wide form distribution for years and opens only in IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible client, not in a pdf reader.

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

  • Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Alaska.
  • Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Alaska.
  • Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Alaska.
  • Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total Alaska.
  • Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Hawaii
  • Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Hawaii.
  • Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Hawaii.
  • Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total Hawaii.
  • Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total U S Territories.
  • Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total U S Territories.
  • Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total U S Territories.
  • Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total U S Territories.
  • Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total American Samoa.
  • Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total American Samoa.
  • Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total American Samoa.
  • Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total American Samoa.
  • Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Guam.
  • Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Guam.
  • Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Guam.
  • Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total Guam.
  • Column 1, Command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Johnston Atoll.
  • Column 2, Non command sponsored. Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Johnston Atoll.
  • Column 3, Enter number of dependents of active duty personnel, total Johnston Atoll.
  • Column 4, Enter number of dependents of U S citizen civilian employees, total Johnston Atoll.

The document is filled from the top down. Identification precedes substance, substance precedes certification. Fields lower on the page are commonly keyed to entries made above them.

Edition in use: not stated. Because DD forms are revised at Department level and distributed to all services at once, an obsolete printing may not match the fields an office expects. The date is printed on the form face.

Signature is manual ink on printed copies and digital where the receiving system accepts it. A typed name in a signature field is a name, not a signature. Common Access Card credentials support digital signature in pdf where the form and the reader permit.

Privacy Act notice: DD forms that collect personal data carry a Privacy Act Statement stating the authority for collection, the principal purpose, routine uses and whether disclosure is voluntary or mandatory. The statement is part of the form and should be read before entry, not after.

Errors seen most often involve edition mismatch, empty mandatory fields, illegibility after scanning, date formats inconsistent with the printed instruction, and unsigned or undated certification.

Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.

The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.

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.

Editions change because the underlying directive changes, because collection requirements are revised, or because Privacy Act language is updated. Checking the edition date at the point of download is the practical response.

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 2498?
DD Form 2498, Report of Dependents of Active Duty Military Personnel and Dependents of U.S. Citizen Civilian Employees, September 1999
Which edition is current?
Not stated by the publisher
Who is responsible for this form?
Not stated
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF

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