@kelsmom perhaps can clarify.
Your public pension has no value to you until you start to draw on it, I believe. When you start to draw your pension, the amount you draw will be listed as unearned income.
I’m a retired public school educator. My kids graduated from undergrad in 2007 and 2010. At that time, I was not required to list my projected public pension…anyplace…on the FAFSA or the Profile. I was not drawing pension income at that time.