Jan. 1, 2025 is the first day when Alaskans can file applications for their annual share of the state’s oil wealth, known as the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend.
The dividend is given to qualifying Alaskans — those who meet certain residency requirements — every fall, but applications are received January through March. The actual amount is determined by the Legislature deciding what it can spare out of the state budget. The 2024 PFD was $1,702 and more than 600,000 Alaskans were deemed eligible.
In 1980, Alaska voters passed a constitutional amendment to establish the Alaska Permanent Fund, which requires at least 25% of certain mineral revenues to be deposited into a public savings account that now has about $80 billion.
The Alaska State Legislature then enacted legislation to establish the Permanent Fund Dividend program, which would have paid $50 for each year of residency since statehood, but it was later ruled unconstitutional by the Alaska Supreme Court because some residents were getting more than other residents. After various legislation setting different calculation amounts, the Legislature finally settled on 12-month residency requirement, with certain allowable absences.
The 2025 PFD application will be available online from the PFD website beginning at 9 a.m.
Jan. 1 is a state holiday, so the Permanent Fund Division offices will be closed to walk-in applicants. Division offices will reopen on Jan 2 at 10 a.m.
On Jan. 1, you can apply online at this link. Or at this link.
And watch Dunleavy lie to us again about the amount
Fries: The Governor sort of over promises but he isn’t a “liar” on the PFD issue.
The Alaska Legislature has he constitutional power to appropriate the PFD amount.
Yer bitch is primarily with the the legislature, not the state executive branch.
There was a moment in Wasilla when he might have mattered. Use the powers of his office to force a vote where people could actually express their wishes to the legislature.
But in the showdown with Giessel he wet himself and has been irrelevant since
Dunleavy? Do you mean the legislature?
nitwit,
It isn’t Dunleavy that changes the amount, its the damn legislature who lowers the amount everytime, every year. Further, it is the Alaskan Senate that won’t let Alaskans’ even vote to have the full state law mandated permanent fund dividend paid to each Alaskan as set down when the Alaskan Permanent Fund was created. By the way, I voted to create the Permanent Fund in the first place back in the 1970’s, did you? I can guarantee you none of these coalition liberals (Demo -Marxists) and Rinos didn’t vote to create it, for that matter, most were not even born yet!!!!!!!!!!!!! Note: I said they won’t even let you or any other Alaskan vote on reinstating it!!!! This is after they stole a full pfd, as demanded by Alaskan Law, years ago when they arranged with some Southeastern Judges to take it away from us and then set themselves up to determine every damn year what the amount will be. Folks, you should start voting these thieves out of office, because as it sits, they will keep stealing our PFD,s and lining their pockets with per diem cash as they purposely run legislative sessions over time limits. If you don’t get rid of these damn people in office you get exactly the type of government you receive, and are receiving right now, which is absolute garbage.
I’m no fan of the Cowardly Lion, but he’s been irrelevant in this game since Giessel politically castrated him in Wasilla.
He’s been an empty suit since.
What makes it worse than a simple handout is the belligerent expectation of those on the take!