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State programs in Alaska

Which state programs still need a verified income limit? Figures below use the 2026 poverty guideline of $41,250 for a household of four in Alaska, unless the program uses its own dollar table.

Alaska has no metro in the top 100 population ranking, so this page stays on statewide rules.

Alaska has no tax on wages. Combined state and local sales tax is 1.8%. The ACS effective property tax rate is 1.06%.

A household of four with $48,000 of income is about 116 percent of the $41,250 poverty guideline and is a maybe for State programs. Open these, but no state income limit is verified.

Limits behind the page

2026 poverty guideline in Alaska
Household100%138%185%
1$19,950$27,531$36,908
2$27,050$37,329$50,043
3$34,150$47,127$63,178
4$41,250$56,925$76,313

An illustrative household

Two adults, ages 34 and 32, filing jointly, plus children ages 8 and 3. Gross income $48,000 a year, about 116 percent of the poverty guideline in Alaska. They rent. Nobody is marked disabled or pregnant.

State programs

Maybe

Open these, but no state income limit is verified

  • Alaska SNAP office: SNAP in Alaska is run by the state human services agency. Many states raise the gross income test through broad-based categorical eligibility. That state percentage is not verified in this dataset, so the checker uses the federal 130 percent test only.
  • Alaska Medicaid and CHIP agency: Children's CHIP ceilings, pregnancy coverage, and parent coverage in non-expansion states are set by Alaska. Those percents of poverty are not stored unless a figure has been checked against a primary table.
  • Alaska energy assistance: LIHEAP grantees set income limits between 110 percent of the poverty guidelines and the greater of 150 percent of poverty or 60 percent of state median income. The percent this state chose is not verified here.
  • Alaska child care assistance: Child care subsidies are a state and local program. Income limits for Alaska are not in this dataset.
State program contacts for Alaska

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Food stamps (SNAP) tools in Alaska

Other programs in Alaska

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