Ona Brouse
39:05 - 39:48
"this fund and the way this fund is recovered should be calculated and analyzed on an annual basis. There were a few years where that was not occurring, and during that time frame, the costs of the claims also increased. So the inflationary impacts of the cost of everything combined with the, the sort of lost corrections on an annual basis to do this annual true-up that we have now done sort of ballooned the deficit that we saw occurring."
“this fund and the way this fund is recovered should be calculated and analyzed on an annual basis. There were a few years where that was not occurring, and during that time frame, the costs of the claims also increased. So the inflationary impacts of the cost of everything combined with the, the sort of lost corrections on an annual basis to do this annual true-up that we have now done sort of ballooned the deficit that we saw occurring.”
- Speaker
- Ona Brouse
- Timestamp
- 39:05 – 39:48
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 18, 2026
From the transcript
Through the Chair, part of it is that this fund and the way this fund is recovered should be calculated and analyzed on an annual basis. There were a few years where that was not occurring, and during that time frame, the costs of the claims also increased. So the inflationary impacts of the cost of everything combined with the, the sort of lost corrections on an annual basis to do this annual true-up that we have now done sort of ballooned the deficit that we saw occurring. So now we're able to come in, understand what the actual numbers should be going forward, how much we should be—. Mm-hmm.
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