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10. Tip for the tax thing

I am on SSI and its my sole source of income, so I have zero tax liability and thus no reason to file a return.

What I did in order for the IRS e-File system to accept my return (and for the free eFile services to let me submit it) was I put that I earned $1 in savings account interest. Note: You do not report your SSI amount as income on a tax return, also do not report it in the 'Social Security' box either as that is not about SSI.

It didn't let me fill in the direct deposit section, but since they will mail out physical checks if there's no deposit info the thing to remember is to put your MAILING address and not your actual address you live at - if it differs. So for example if your city does not deliver USPS mail to the home and instead delivers it to PO boxes at a post office, make sure to put down the PO box as your address to ensure the check won't get lost.

Anyway, that's what I did and it said the IRS system accepted my return.

Skip the state tax prompts for the eFile services - it will ask you for money because only the federal tax returns are free to eFile and state tax filing is irrelevant here so just skip that part and it will be totally free.