Questions about CSS Profile PI info

Paying for College
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<p>In CSS Profile PI-105D
Estimate your parents' 2010 wages, salaries, and tips using their 2010 pay stubs and 2009 IRS Form 1040, line 7. </p>

<p>Please advise if this use W2 form Box 3 or Box 1 of both parents.</p>

<p>& PI-155D
Estimate the income parent 1 earned or expects to earn from work in 2010 using his or her 2010 W-2 form(s) if he or she has received them; your parent's 2009 IRS Form 1040, lines 7, 12, and 18 (if lines 12 or 18 are negative, treat them as zero) and IRS Schedule K-1 (Form 1065), box 14; and pay stubs and other income documentation for 2010. If your parents filed a joint return, use only parent 1's portion of lines 7, 12, and 18 and box 14 to estimate. (Parent 1 is the parent you entered in PD-105.) </p>

<p>Please advise if this use W2 form Box 3 or box1 of parent 1.</p>

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<p>I hope someone can clarify my confusion area. Here mentioned about PI-155D
“Estimate the income parent 1 earned or expects to earn from work in 2010 using his or her 2010 W-2 form(s) if he or she has received them”.</p>

<p>I have W2 form, I would like to know the correct info I need to put, I know for 1040 form Line 7 which come out from box 1 of W2 form. However, when we said “earned income” which shall use box 3 of W2 form. </p>

<p>So, please someone can confirm in CSS file, which figure I shall fill in for PI-155D. Thanks!</p>

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<p>Use Box 1.</p>