Alaska News

2013 Permanent Fund dividend at a glance

How much? $900.

When do we get it? Morning of Oct. 3 for those who picked direct deposit. Paper checks also will be mailed that day from Juneau.

Oldest applicant: 108

Youngest: One minute old at the midnight Dec. 31, 2012, deadline.

Number getting PFDs: An estimated 640,436 Alaskans.

Number who applied: 670,865, down a few thousand from last year.

Number giving a portion to charity through Pick.Click.Give: 26,093.

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Total amount of PFDs this year: $576 million.

Total being given to charity: $2.4 million.

Total of individual dividends paid since the first one in 1982: $36,343.41.

Highest dividend ever: $2,069 in 2008, the same year all eligible Alaskans also received a $1,200 energy rebate.

Lowest dividend ever: $331.29 in 1984.

By LISA DEMER

ldemer@adn.com

Lisa Demer

Lisa Demer was a longtime reporter for the Anchorage Daily News and Alaska Dispatch News. Among her many assignments, she spent three years based in Bethel as the newspaper's western Alaska correspondent. She left the ADN in 2018.

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