The 2010 Permanent Fund Dividend applications will only be mailed to 24 percent of the people who filed for a dividend in 2009.

That's because the state is trying to economize on the process and moving toward the day when it will be entirely online. About 76 percent of Alaskans filed online this year and are likely to do so again in 2010. So it makes little sense to mail hundreds of thousands of applications that won't be used.

But the paper applications are not going away yet. Anyone who filed by mail in 2009 is supposed to get a paper application in the mail, along with "an introduction to the new process," the PFD office says. A postcard reminder is to be mailed to every mailbox in the state.

For those who want a paper

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application and don't get one in the mail, they will be available at the dividend information office at 1005 Cushman St., the Legislative Information Office at 1291 Sadler Way, Suite 308, the Noel Wien Library and the Tanana Chiefs Conference building at 201 First Ave., Suite 300 and the North Pole Branch Library.

To contact the Newsroom, call 907-274-1111.


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