Latest Permanent Fund Dividend

Dunleavy unveils plan for PFD back payments

News

Dunleavy unveils plan for PFD back payments

That mega PFD isn’t happening this year, in his plan.

State resumes online applications for PFD checks

News

State resumes online applications for PFD checks

Security concerns prompted closure last week.

Security concerns prompt closing of dividend applications

News

Security concerns prompt closing of dividend applications

Information of other users popped up on applicants’ computer screens.

Democrat gubernatorial candiate Mark Begich, a former U.S. Senator for Alaska and former mayor of Anchorage, speaks during an interview in Juneau on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Opinion

Opinion: The future of the Permanent Fund Dividend

It’s complicated.

Opinion: The hollow satisfaction of undoing government

Opinion

Opinion: The hollow satisfaction of undoing government

Going back to the problems we had before one side thinks they solved them isn’t “doing things differently.”

Mainframe Operator Will Muldoon lifts 500 freshly printed Permanent Fund Dividend checks from the printer at the state’s secure printing facility in Juneau on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

News

Check it out: Permanent Fund Dividend checks flow from printers this week

With the soft sound of smoothly operating electronics, workers in the State Office Building are printing money.

The PFD is $1,600: A Q&A about your dividend

News

The PFD is $1,600: A Q&A about your dividend

This is the first year in decades that the state isn’t following the traditional distribution formula.