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Defense Department form, series DD, number 2891. Full title: DD Form 2891, Authorization for RSFPP and/or SBP Costs Deduction, October 2005. Function: Authorization for Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan (RSFPP) and/or Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) Costs Deduction. 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.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 16 entry fields.
Pdf serves as the base format. In the fillable variant, each box is an interactive field that holds typed text inside the document. In the flat printable variant, no fields exist — the page prints as a blank to be completed by hand. Typed entries survive transmission; handwriting does not always survive scanning.
Xfdl is present in the set. The format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms — long the Defense standard for electronic forms — and needs the matching viewer; pdf applications will report the file as unreadable.
Free download applies to every format listed. Any current pdf reader opens the pdf files, though field behaviour is most reliable in a full desktop reader rather than a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- Section 1 - To be completed by member. 1. I hereby authorized the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to deduct: Press space bar to mark X if deducting from Survivor Benefit Plan costs..
- Amount to be deducted from Survivor Benefit Plan costs.
- Mark X if deducting from Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan (RSFPP) costs.
- Amount to be deducted from Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan costs.
- Beginning on the first day of: enter month.
- Year deductions begin.
- 1.a. Member Signature.
- 1.b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Section 2 - To be completed by the VA. 1. Member's name (last, first, middle).
- 2. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 3. VA claim number.
- 4. VA office name and address.
- 5. SBP monthly deduction.
- 6. RSFPP monthly deduction.
- 7. Submission date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
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.
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.
Associated forms are traced by number within the series. Because the DD sequence is common to all military departments, no service qualifier is needed to identify a referenced form.
Where a DA form is cited alongside a DD form, the two belong to different systems: DA numbering is Army-specific and administered by an Army proponent, while DD numbering is Defense-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. Numbers do not translate between the systems.
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.
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 2891?
- DD Form 2891, Authorization for RSFPP and/or SBP Costs Deduction, October 2005
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?