<p>If you are a student (the applicant) for college, do you still need to put something for the non tax filer sheet? Also, if you don't work do you just leave the thing blank or write in zeroes to make sure?</p>
<p>you will need a non-filer form if you are not filing taxes. I’d leave the “source of income” lines blank and just fill in a zero for the total, assuming you have absolutely no sources of income. If you have a bank account or savings bonds or anything, you may have a small amount of interest income to report.</p>
<p>I would actually find it kind of odd if you have no income whatsoever. Are you saying you are applying for financial aid to help pay for college - yet you yourself did not work over the summer? Or have a part-time job during the school year? Colleges expect students to earn some money - if you didn’t have a job last summer - that should be on your to-do list for this coming summer.</p>
<p>Is that really true? I am in high school and the majority of my friends did not work this year. I have worked in the past before, but that is not the year the form is asking for.</p>
<p>One of my daughters tried to find work all last summer and couldn’t,she babysat but that doesn’t quite fit in with filing taxes, she didn’t make enough. Some places are very tough to find employment, we also just have 2 cars and getting to work is an issue.
I told my children to look for something evenings and weekends, but stores, etc. weren’t hiring and many didn’t want summer employment, they wanted students that would stay and said so outright.
I’ve seen the applications, the phone calls, etc. and know although some kids don’t try hard, others do. When my daughter asked a school what if the student can’t make the 4000 you expect from them over the summer, they said, “That is what loans are for”.
Luckily, she doesn’t have a large expectation from her school now.</p>
<p>Fingers crossed for this summer, hopefully orientation positions for part of it.</p>