...dividends issued to Alaska residents out of investment profits from the Alaska Permanent Fund - the state's oil-wealth savings account - and repeatedly used the assumed identity to vote in local and national elections, according to the documents...
...This year's payments will go out on Oct. 6.The annual dividends, provided by earnings on the state's oil wealth savings account, this year will pump about $858 million into the state's economy.At the dividend announcement at an Anchorage...
...like to see the percentage of givers rise to 10 percent.Nearly every Alaskan receives an annual Permanent Fund dividend check. The money comes from investment profits from the state's multibillion-dollar oil-wealth savings account.
...speaking after the stock market closed Monday, the day the dollars had to be counted, fund officials said the oil-wealth savings account earned enough to pay a dividend. The amount will not be announced until Sept. 24. Analysts project the checks...
...Permanent Fund ended fiscal year 2005 with a healthy investment gain, but you won't see the benefits soon. The oil-wealth savings account posted a year-end gain June 30 of 10.2 percent. That's less than the 14.2 percent gain for 2004 but...
...permanent fund for state government, but some individual lawmakers have proposed tapping earnings from the state's oil wealth savings account to close a nearly $1 billion state budget gap. Under the proposed initiative, it would take a 60 percent vote...
...deputy commissioner of the Alaska Department of Revenue. A family of four will get a payout from the state's oil wealth savings account will mean a cash infusion of about $6,000 this year. Low-income households saw their incomes rise during...
...the stock market. Dividends reached an all-time high in 2000 with payouts of $1,963.86. That year the oil-wealth savings account's total market value was $26.5 billion. This year the fund is valued at $23.5 billion. The fund was...
...was governor when the permanent fund was created, has been an ardent supporter of protecting the state's oil-wealth savings account. He said Ulmer's support of an endowment approach to managing the fund would help protect the dividend program...
...Taylor said. The dividend gives Alaskans yearly checks - this year's was $1,850 - from the state's oil-wealth savings account. And the Longevity Bonus Program sends monthly checks of $100 to $250 to about 20,000 senior Alaskans...
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