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DD Form 2560 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 2560, Advance Pay Certification/Authorization, March 1990. Stated purpose: Advance Pay Certification/Authorization. Edition date not stated; status not stated.
Prescribing authority: not stated. Proponent: not stated. Unlike service-specific publications, DD forms carry Department-level authority and apply across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
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.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 2 pages with about 42 entry fields.
Distribution centres on pdf. Two states exist: fillable, where field boxes accept keyboard input and retain it, and printable, a static blank produced for manual completion. Typed data reproduces cleanly across copies; handwritten data depends on the writer.
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.
Every listed format is free to download. Modern pdf software handles the pdf files, with the caveat that browser-embedded viewers sometimes ignore field properties that a desktop reader honours.
What the form asks for
- Part 1 - Request. 1. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 2. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 3. Grade.
- 4. I request: Press space bar to mark X in first box if a. one month advance pay, or second box if b. more than 1 month but less than 3 months basic pay less deductions.
- If b., specify amount.
- 5. I request a repayment schedule of: X first box if a. 12 months or less, or second box if b. 13 - 24 months.
- If a., specify number of months.
- If b., specify number of months.
- 6. I request payment of the advance pay: X first box if a. within 30 days of PCS or 60 days after reporting to my next PDS, second box if b. 31 - 90 days before my PCS, or third box if c. 61 - 180 days after arrival at my PDS.
- 8.a. Amount, line 1.
- Amount, line 2.
- Amount, line 3.
- Amount, line 4.
- Amount, line 5.
- Amount, line 6.
- 9. Total expense amount.
- Part 2 - Certification of Expenses. 7. Expense. a. Line 1.
- 7.b. Expense, line 2.
- 7.c. Expense, line 3.
- 7.d. Expense, line 4.
- 7.e. Expense, line 5.
- 7.f. Expense, line 6.
- 10. Explanation of the circumstances where greater-than-normal expenses might be incurred or circumstances requiring an early or late payment of advance pay.
- Part 3 - Justification for more than 12 months payback. 11. Number of dependents.
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.
Verify the edition date against not stated before entry. Department-level revisions replace the blank across every service simultaneously, so an old copy in a desk drawer may no longer correspond to current field numbering.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 2560 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
A DD number and a DA number may appear in the same instruction without being related. DA forms belong to the Army alone; DD forms belong to the Department and are administered at Department level. The sequences are independent.
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.
Scope of this page: distribution of a published form and description of its contents. It offers no legal guidance and no assurance regarding any particular submission. Direct procedural questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2560?
- DD Form 2560, Advance Pay Certification/Authorization, March 1990
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?