<prompt> Human: My girlfriends parents wont file their taxes because they owe so much for putting them off over 12,000. She was allowed to receive financial aid for the first semester of her 2016-2017 school year because her parents had an extension on their taxes. But now they have to file them in order of her to receive aid for the second semester and they wont do it. You cant file as an independent unless you are 24 years or older for FAFSA and her parents help in no way with rent, books etc. Her grandparents paid for her tuition but she needs the financial aid refund in order to pay rent and make car payments. Her parents would rather go to prison than pay in for taxes so it is unlikely that they will get them filed by the end of the month when her payments are due. Is there anything she can do?  <response>: Basically two option. Somehow get them to file or pay for college another way. It is a crappy situation that I had experience as well at the point where I lived by myself paid for everything lived 2,000 miles away yet they wont make any exceptions. Setup in a manner to screw people who have messed up parents where really they are consider just birth parents and nothing more. 