<p>if your parents are recently retired but used to make over $400,000 a year, do i put that they now make nothing or what they used to make?</p>
<p>The amount of their pension/etc./whatever they actually make now</p>
<p>The income you will be putting on the forms is the income your parents earned in 2005. That income can be from any source…retirement, pension, social security, etc. There is also a place to put interest and dividend income…all from 2005.</p>
<p>If there is enough of a drop in income for this year to make a difference for FA, then you will want to write an appeal letter to the schools detailing this information.</p>