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Hi, @Mike9241 You write:

>should be under deductions and credits > you and your family > child and dependent care credit (even if you're not getting the credit)

The problem is that there is no way to enter the expenses. Because once the system sees that I don't qualify for the credit it does not give me the option to enter expenses anyway. See screenshot.

>both spouses must have earned income or be disabled or full-time student to allow for any child care expenses  so if your answering the eligibility questions and one spouse does not have earned income, is not a student and is not disable then there is no offset allowed for the expenses. 

I don't think that's correct. The DCFSA and the dependent care credit are different things. I am ineligible for the credit, but we should still be eligible for the DCFSA and we have in fact been making DCFSA contributions, which have been disbursed. Are you saying that if one spouse does not have income and is not a student or disabled the family is ineligible for the FSA deduction? That would explain it but I have never seen that mentioned in discussion of FSAs. Do you have a source or regulation that says that? I can't find anything on Google.

>have you entered your dependents info yet and specifically in part III the dependent care expenses 

I have entered the dependents into the system and they populate on the 1040. But the system never takes me to Part III to enter expenses for the reason I explained above.

Thanks