DD Form 2674 occupies a particular place in Defense recordkeeping. Its title is DD Form 2674, Record and Receipt of Deposits and Withdrawals of Safekeeping Funds, September 2007, and it exists to Record and Receipt of Deposits and Withdrawals of Safekeeping Funds. What the DD prefix records is an administrative judgment made long before your copy was printed: this transaction was determined to be common to the whole Department rather than peculiar to one service, and so the documentation of it was standardized at Department level.
This is why the arrangement matters to you rather than only to the archivists. not stated governs the form throughout the Department, with not stated as the responsible office, so the record you create is legible outside your own component. Joint assignments, agency details and cross-service transactions all depend on that: the paperwork does not have to be reconstructed each time it crosses a boundary.
The edition in force is not stated, carried by the publisher as not stated, and edition discipline is stricter on a Department form than most people expect, precisely because supersession happens everywhere at once. There is no interval during which one service still works from the previous layout while another has moved on.
The form is laid out top to bottom in a sequence that reflects how the record will be read, not merely how it was drawn. Identification comes first because everything below it is understood in relation to a named person, unit or transaction; substantive entries follow; certification closes the document because certification attests to what precedes it. Filling out of order tends to produce internal inconsistencies — an entry that made sense before the header was settled and does not afterward.
Before the first entry, compare the date printed on the form face with not stated. This is not bureaucratic fussiness. Editions change field numbering, and a receiving office working from the current layout may look for information where your copy does not put it. On a Department form the exposure is wider than usual: your record may be reviewed by an office in another service entirely, one with no reason to remember what the previous edition looked like.
Where a specific field is genuinely unclear, the instructions printed on the form come first and not stated governs where the two do not agree.
Download the form
The set published here is PDF, covering 1 pages with roughly 24 fields. More than one format survives because the Department serves users under very different conditions, from a desk with current software to a location where a printer is the only reliable output.
Fillable and printable are not two presentations of one file but two different objects. One holds your entries as structured data within the document; the other is a static picture meant to meet a pen. Since a DD form frequently moves outside the organization that created it, the durability of the entry matters more here than on a record that stays in one drawer. Typed text reproduces indefinitely; handwriting degrades at every copy.
What the form asks for
- 1. Deposit number.
- 2. Deposit. a. Amount deposited (in words).
- 2.b. Amount deposited (in figures).
- 2.c. Description of other property deposited.
- 2.d. Depositor. (1) Signature.
- 2.d.(2) Rank or title.
- 2.d.(3) Account number or social security number.
- 2.d.(4) Date of deposit (Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- 2.e. Receipt. (1) Signature.
- 2.e.(2) Rank or title.
- 2.e.(3) Date of receipt (Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- 3. Withdrawal: 1 of 3. a. Amount withdrawn (in words).
- 3.b. Amount withdrawn (in figures).
- 3.c. Description of other property withdrawn.
- 3.d. Receipt. (1) Signature of drawer.
- 3.d.(2) Rank or title.
- 3.d.(3) Date of withdrawal (Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- 4. Withdrawal: 2 of 3. a. Amount withdrawn (in words).
- 4.b. Amount withdrawn (in figures).
- 4.c. Description of other property withdrawn.
- 4.d. Receipt. (1) Signature of drawer.
- 4.d.(2) Rank or title.
- 4.d.(3) Date of withdrawal (Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
The completed form goes to the office named in not stated or in local implementing procedure, and it is worth keeping a copy before it goes. On a Department form the destination is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint staff — and recovering a document that has crossed an organizational boundary is a slower business than retrieving one from a file down the hall.
Cross-referenced documents are found by series and number, with nothing further required. That the DD sequence is unified across the Department means a cited number identifies one form and no other, which is the practical payoff of centralizing the numbering in the first place.
Where a service form is cited in the same instruction, the two numbering systems should not be read across. DA numbering belongs to the Army and is administered by an Army proponent; DD numbering belongs to the Department and is administered by not stated or an equivalent Department office. The systems developed separately and were never harmonized, so identical digits in each identify two documents with nothing in common. The prefix, not the number, tells you which system you are in.
Understanding why editions change explains why checking them is not optional. Revision follows directive reissue, changes in what data is required, and amendments to mandatory notice text — decisions made at Department level and communicated through publication rather than notification. The file you saved does not update itself, so the edition date at download is what you rely on.
A word on what this page is. It distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes what the document contains and how it is completed. It is not the issuing authority, does not speak for one, and offers no legal advice; nothing written here determines whether a particular submission will be accepted, because that determination belongs entirely to the office receiving it. Questions of applicability, eligibility or procedure go to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2674?
- DD Form 2674, Record and Receipt of Deposits and Withdrawals of Safekeeping Funds, September 2007
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?