What is wrong with my if/else statement?

Code :

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public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
 
       int income = 0;
       char answer;
       String student, input;
 
       Scanner keyboard = new Scanner (System.in);
 
        System.out.print("Are you an undergraduate student(y or n)? ");
        input = keyboard.next();
        answer = input.charAt(0);
 
        if( answer == 'y' || answer == 'Y')
        {
            System.out.print("What is your income? ");
            student = keyboard.next();
 
            if( income <= 15000 )
            {
                System.out.println("\nYou qualify for $1000 in financial aid.\n");
            }
            else if (income > 15000)
            {
                System.out.println("\nYou qualify for $500 in financial aid.");
            }
 
        }
        else if( answer == 'n' || answer == 'N')
        {
            System.out.println("\nYou do not qualify for financial aid.\n");   
        }
 
 
 
 
    }

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I cannot get it to print "You qualify for $500 in financial aid" if income is greater than $15,000.

check the value of your income...

my output :

Code Java:

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Are you an undergraduate student(y or n)? y
What is your income? 15001
income 0
 
You qualify for $1000 in financial aid.

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After I just changed a line and Parsed to int

my output:

Code Java:

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Are you an undergraduate student(y or n)? y
What is your income? 15001
income 15001
 
You qualify for $500 in financial aid.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 6 seconds)

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it works then.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by william

check the value of your income...

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That is all you had to say...I saw it after you mentioned this.

Thanks