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Department of Defense form 2940. Official designation: DD Form 2940, Statement of Entitlement to Educational Assistance, January 2009. Purpose: Statement of Entitlement to Educational Assistance for Reserve Components Supporting Contingency Operations and Certain National Emergency Response Operations. Current edition 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.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 2 pages and contains approximately 13 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. Member's information. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Rank.
- c. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- d. Service.
- e. Component (National Guard or Reserve).
- f. Category (Reserve affiliation). Press space bar to mark X in first box if Selected Reserve, second box if Individual Ready Reserve.
- 2. Member's certification. a. I have been notified that I am entitled to: X first box if option 1, 40 percent, second box if option 2, 60 percent, third box if option 3, 80 percent, or fourth box if option 4, 40 percent due to early release.
- 3.a. Member signature.
- b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 4. Service verifying official. a. Name (last, first, middle initial).
- b. Signature.
- c. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
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.
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 Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field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.
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 2940?
- DD Form 2940, Statement of Entitlement to Educational Assistance, January 2009
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?