# 2025-23807: DoD Polls on Service Member Benefit Forms

2025-23807, Proposed Collection; Comment Request, is a Federal Register notice from Defense Department published 2025-12-29, effective 2026-02-27 (as of 2026-06-08).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-23807
- Title: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Defense Department
- Citation: 90 FR 60691
- Published: 2025-12-29
- Effective: 2026-02-27
- Comments close: 2026-02-27
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

DoD Polls on Service Member Benefit Forms

## Summary

The Department of Defense wants your thoughts on a form called DD Form 93, which helps service members pick who gets benefits if something happens to them. They’re checking if the form is useful, clear, and not too much work to fill out. You’ve got until February 27, 2026, to share your ideas—no cost to comment, just your time!

## Abstract

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness announces a proposed public information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited on: whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology.

## Effects PRIA read

- DD Form 93: Name beneficiaries and contacts: benefit, medium. DD Form 93 (Record of Emergency Data) is used by Service members to designate beneficiaries for certain benefits if the Service member dies and to name who should be notified in an emergency or death. The form also guides disposition of pay and allowances if a member is captured, missing, or intern…
- Time burden to complete DD Form 93: cost, low. The Department of Defense estimates 1,739,012 respondents complete DD Form 93 once per year, with an average burden of 5 minutes per response and total annual burden hours of 144,918. The information collection is on occasion and comments on the paperwork burden are due by February 27, 2026.

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## Sources
- [2025-23807 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23807/proposed-collection-comment-request)
- [2025-23807 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-29/pdf/2025-23807.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-23807 (as of 2026-06-08).