On June 27, 2008, the Alaska Supreme Court issued a potentially far-reaching decision, Carter v. B&B Construction, Inc., Slip No. 6277, which addresses the two-year limit on payment of stipend benefits under AS 23.30.041(k). As we previously understood that limit based upon Board decisions, stipend benefits were typically payable from the time PPI benefits were exhausted (if the employee was in the “reemployment process”) until completion of a reemployment plan, with the two-