<prompt> Human: This is actually for a friend, but basically the title. His mom does not make a lot of money, but he basically found out recently that she doesnt have any paperwork on anything she made in the last two years, and she hasnt filed taxes at all since 2014. She was technically unemployed for most of the last two years, and my friend 21, his little brother just turned 18, and her mid 40s? have been living off of my friends income at a minimum wage job, money from his little brothers part-time job hes still in high school, and money that she got from jobs here and there. His dad died in 2010 when he was 15 and his brother was 11, and I believe his mom collected some sort of Social Security until his brother turned 18, which was this past January. If he cant get her to file her 2015 taxes what the 2017-2018 FAFSA is now based off of in the next few months, what options does he have to retrieve past tax information from her in 2014? She is rather uncooperative in general as far as getting her stuff together, any general advice for this type of situation?  <response>: It looks like the FAFSA form has instructions for how to handle the situation that the students parent has not filed. See the Using Your Tax Return section on the first page, and also question 80.It seems that your friend should either indicate that their parent will not file and skip the questions it says to skip, or indicate that their parent will eventually file and use estimated values, then resubmit the FAFSA with corrected values after their mother files. 