the No. 1 source of general-purpose revenue for state services and the Permanent Fund dividend, suffered a multibillion-dollar loss during last week’s stock market crash. According to ...

Alaskans file their Permanent Fund dividend applications in downtown Anchorage in March 2016. (Rachel Waldholz/Alaska Public Media) Monday, March 31, marks Alaskans’ final opportunity to apply ...

This is part of the state’s Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program, a unique initiative funded through the state’s oil ...

Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend is often regarded as a yearly Alaska stimulus check for residents, injecting cash directly into households and the state economy. In 2024, the program marked its ...

I strongly oppose the change to Alaska’s Constitution to allow spending from a proposed single-component Permanent Fund. Today, the Permanent Fund [PF] has two components, its Principal Account ...

What every retiree should know Some Alaska residents will benefit from the $1,702 stimulus payment, which corresponds to the 2025 Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). In 1976, the Alaska Permanent Fund ...

To help compensate, the state cuts residents an annual check to bolster residents' household finances through the Permanent Fund dividend. Residents voted to create the Alaska Permanent Fund after ...

Neal Foster, D-Nome, and Nellie Unangiq Jimmie, D-Toksook Bay — voted against a proposal to set the Permanent Fund dividend at $1,000. Foster supports a dividend at the level set under the ...

Imagine what we could do if most of the money that we spend on PFDs each year was instead put back into the principal of the Permanent Fund. Eventually, the fund would grow large enough so that ...