Have you filed for your 2023 PFD?

Alaskans, we are halfway through the 2023 filing season! If you haven’t done so already, please file for your dividend online today!

You can file for your Permanent Fund Dividend at https://pfd.alaska.gov. After you have completed your application, remind your friends and family to file online. Saving paper and reducing waste are just a few of the many benefits to filing online. If you applied by paper this year, please disregard this email. Paper applications are still being processed.

The deadline for submitting PFD applications is March 31st. Paper applications must be postmarked by March 31st, and online applications must be submitted by 11:59pm on March 31st. All other supporting documents, if required, can be submitted to the division after April 1st or upon request. For immediate updates on PFD Division announcements, you can check the PFD website at https://pfd.alaska.gov, and/or follow us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/PFDofficial.

Whether you still need to apply, or you already have, it’s not too late to take advantage of the voluntary programs: Alaska529 and Pick.Click.Give. The Education Raffle is also available when filing your online application.

Take your PFD further with the following options:

It’s no secret that Alaskans are generous people. Whether it’s helping your neighbor recover from an earthquake disaster, assisting with a child’s education, or providing for your family; you give without limits.

Further Your Future — By investing half your dividend in a new or existing Alaska 529 account, applicants are automatically entered to win a $25,000 scholarship account. The Alaska 529 plan is a tax-advantaged way to save for future education expenses at any eligible university, college, technical or vocational school, apprenticeship program, or even K-12 public, private, and religious schools. For more information on the program, visit https://www.alaska529plan.com.

Further Our Community — Support local nonprofits when you Pick.Click.Give. Your support helps nonprofits in your area provide vital services and programs your community needs. Visit https://www.pickclickgive.org for more information.

Further Their Education — The Education Raffle is going into its 5th year, allowing individuals to purchase raffle entries to benefit education.  This option must be chosen at the time of filing an adult online application.  Each entry can be purchased for $100 for a chance to win! Visit https://pfd.alaska.gov/Division-Info/education-raffle-faq for more information.

Permanent Fund Dividend Division

State of Alaska Department of Revenue

Gap Oil is a concept that puts an end to Alaska oil & gas development

Representative Peltola had a pleasant conversation with a Joint Session of the Legislature today (February 17, 2023) but her comments advocating for “Gap Oil” are concerning. Alaska is a resource rich state. Our wealth is in our water and our land. Responsible resource development is inseparably linked to our long-term economic prosperity – and we develop resources more responsibly than anywhere else on earth. “Gap Oil” is a concept that puts an end to Alaska oil & gas development. Alaska’s only member of the U.S. House of Representatives is rightly concerned about our fish but if she was as worried about good paying Alaskan jobs she wouldn’t buy into “Gap Oil” and the nonsense that our nation can thrive without a vibrant oil & gas industry. I hope an “Alaska Model” works for protecting Alaskan salmon but promoting an end to oil & gas jobs in Alaska is as partisan as you can get.

Representative Ben Carpenter

House of Representatives

District 8

Murkowski responds to unidentified object shot down in Alaska Territory

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) a member of the U.S. Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and the leading expert in Congress on Arctic policy and polar affairs, today (February 10, 2023) released the following statement regarding an unidentified object which was shot down by a U.S. fighter jet after flying in Alaska airspace. 

I commend the men and women serving in the Alaska NORAD region, the 11th Air Force, and the Alaska Air National Guard. They did their job quickly, professionally, and with great precision to take down this aerial object and protect Alaskans.

In doing so, they also let it be known: when you threaten Alaska’s sovereignty, you threaten the nation’s sovereignty. Regardless of where the threat comes from, the U.S. military will respond with all force necessary to eliminate it.

I am actively engaged with the Department of Defense, NORTHCOM, and ALCOM on this issue. As we learn more about this incident, I will continue to pressure the administration to be more transparent, because Alaskans deserve to know what is happening in the skies and waters around them.

As a senior appropriator, I will also continue the fight to properly resource manpower, assets, and bases in Alaska.

I’ve driven this point home for years, and we have now been reminded twice in the past week: Alaska is the first line of defense for America. When threats to America come to Alaska’s doorstep, we respond.”

U.S. Senator Murkowski

Washington, D.C.

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