Sorry----the "catch" to getting the childcare credit while searching for a job is that you have to actually find a job and begin working at the job in order to get the credit. That is not TurboTax---that is the way Congress wrote the tax law. So with a joint return, if neither parent is a student or disabled, you have to be able to show income from both spouses in order to get the child care credit.
https://www.irs.gov/help/ita/am-i-eligible-to-claim-the-child-and-dependent-care-credit
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