$1654.00

Every Alaskan who lived in Alaska from 1/1/06-12/31/06 and still lives here received a check for $1654.00 yesterday. It's called the Permanent Fund Dividend and is linked to the State's oil revenues.

And when I say EVERY Alaskan, I mean ALL of them. Age 1-120. We, of course, arrived in Alaska in July of '06. So we have to wait until next year's distribution... Sigh. On the plus side, we will get 5 PFD checks when we do get them. For those of you without fresh batteries in your mental calculator... that would have been $8270 this year! Double Sigh.