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Marking spouse as a full-time student does not get me further through the interview.

 

However, marking full-time student AND putting a nominal value in W-2 box 10 does allow me to complete the interview. But, then 2441 is not right because it wants to give the "student" $1250 of earned income, and that becomes both excluded benefit (incorrectly lowering the taxable benefit) and providing an incorrect credit on line 11. 

 

So, it seems turbotax is doesn't trigger the Dependent Care FSA questions without box 10. But even with box 10 set to $1, I can't compete the interview to enter carry over without claiming spouse is a student, which won't work due to the student/disabled income allowance that provides.