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DD Form 2851 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: DD Form 2851, Request to Correct Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Agency Error, November 2001.. Stated purpose: Request to Correct Thrift Savings Plan Agency Error. 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.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
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.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 2 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 27.
The pdf is the primary distribution format. A fillable pdf accepts typed entries in defined field boxes and stores them in the file; a printable pdf is a flat image of the blank, meant for pen entry after printing. The distinction matters for legibility and for records that pass between offices.
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
- 1. Name. Enter as last name, first name, middle initial.
- 2. Grade.
- 3. Date of birth. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 5.a. Duty DSN telephone number. Include area code and punctuation marks.
- 5.b. Duty commercial telephone number. Include area code and punctuation marks.
- 6. Member's unit name and address.
- 7. Branch of service. X first box if Air Force, second box if Army, third box if Navy, fourth box if Marine Corps, fifth box if Coast Guard, sixth box if Public Health, or seventh box if NOAA.
- 8. Input source. Unit name, address, and telephone number.
- 9. Status. X first box if active duty, second box if guard, or third box if reserves.
- 10. Payroll date. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 11. Date payment made to NFC. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 12. Claimant's brief explanation of error.
- 13. Input source's explanation of extenuating circumstances.
- 14. Documentation attached to support claim. Mark X if Leave and Earnings Statements.
- 14. Mark X if TSP participants statements.
- 14. Mark X if TSP form 1, TSP election form.
- 15. For official use only.
- 16.a. Claimant's signature.
- 16.b. Date signed. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 16.c. E-mail address.
- 17. Input Source. a. Signature.
- 17.b. Date signed. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day.
- 17.c. E-mail address.
- 18. Additional remarks. Use this space to continue any item if necessary.
Order of completion: identification block first, substantive entries second, certification and signature last. The blank is laid out in that sequence and the sequence is not arbitrary — later entries often depend on data established in the header.
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.
The signature block takes an actual signature. On paper this means ink; electronically it means a credentialed digital signature, commonly CAC-based. Typed text in a signature field satisfies neither.
Where personal information is collected, a Privacy Act Statement appears on or with the form. It names the collection authority, the purpose, the routine uses of the data and the consequence of withholding it. Reading it precedes filling the form.
Frequent defects: obsolete edition, unfilled required boxes, handwriting that fails on reproduction, non-conforming date format, and certification without a corresponding date.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
Once executed, routing follows not stated and the submitting organization's own instruction. Keeping a copy is standard.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 2851 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.
Revision occurs when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when statutory notice language is amended. Verification of the edition date at download addresses all three.
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 2851?
- DD Form 2851, Request to Correct Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Agency Error, November 2001.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?