Amending your tax return is not going to get you those monthly child tax credit payments. It takes the IRS over six months to process an amended return, and having an amended return pending in the system affects your eligibility for the monthly CTC payments. If you are not receiving them at this time you will have to wait and get the CTC on your 2021 tax return when you file it in 2022. Sorry.
You say you have received several notices from the IRS but you do not say what the notices tell you to do. Did the notices tell you to amend and send a Form 1040X?
TurboTax would not have "put" your unemployment in the wrong place, but you as the user may have done that if you entered your 1099G for the unemployment in the wrong place. It was supposed to be entered under Federal>Wages & Income>Unemployment----not sure what you did----did you enter it as a W-2 by mistake?
If you used the Free Edition I think you do have to upgrade to Deluxe to amend and enter unemployment compensation. I do not know any way around that unless you get the paper form and amend on paper. But even if you do that, it will take many months for the amended return to be processed.
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040x.pdf
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