Alaska House budget panel advances $3,800 PFD in draft budget

The Alaska House Finance Committee on Wednesday advanced a draft operating budget with a roughly $3,800 Permanent Fund dividend. For a decade, the annual PFD check has been part of the Legislature’s annual budget-making process. A $3,800 PFD would follow a formula from a 1982 statute. Lawmakers on a budget panel adopted the full, statutory […]