I have read in several places that he was collecting unemployment also. Don’t know how much that would be but it’s over and above the previously stated sources of income.
If he was it was VERY recent or illegally.
As a grad student you have an opportunity to work for the university in the research program for the programs that you’re studying,” university spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said. “He worked in the neurosciences program. It is a paid position.”
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/20/us/colorado-theater-suspect-profile/
After high school, Holmes received a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the University of California, Riverside, but could not find a job after returning to San Diego several years ago. For a year or so, he worked part-time at a McDonald’s, according to Tom Mai, who lives near the Holmes family in San DiegoRiverside in 2010 with a
bachelor’s degree in neuroscience,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/20/us-usa-shooting-denver-profile-idUSBRE86J19H20120720
CBS reported yesterday that friends said he was upset that he had to work at McDonalds, even though he had a degree in neuroscience.