Yes. The credit is an additional deduction that lowers the taxes on your return. That is what it is supposed to do when you enter the credit. It says it is a non-refundable credit which means that A nonrefundable credit essentially means that the credit can't be used to increase your tax refund or to create a tax refund when you wouldn't have already had one. In other words, your savings cannot exceed the amount of tax you owe.
With that being said, the amount of refund is effected by the credit. Your refund would not be affected if the credit reduced your taxes to $0.
For example, if your taxes on the return is $1,000 but your credit is $2,000 then you would only be allowed $1,000 credit and the other $1,000 would be non-refundable. So, your taxes must be more than $2,000 without the credit.
TurboTax translates this information accurately most time. I suggest entering the credit then run the error check. If you pass the error check then you are okay.
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