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Child and dependent care credit still works even though my spouse doesn't have sufficient earned income

When completing the "Child and Dependent Care Credit" section, Turbotax asks me if my spouse was either disabled or a full-time student b/c my spouse did not meet the minimum $6,000 earned income requirement. I answered "none of the above" and so Turbotax gives me the following message: 

 

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That makes sense to me. What doesn't make sense to me is that I then hit the "Continue" button and Turbotax starts asking me whose care I paid for: Image1.png

We did technically send our child to preschool for the year so I went ahead and entered the requested info and now Turbotax has decided to give me a 20% credit on those expenses. Is this credit somehow different than the "Child and Dependent Care Credit" I was told we didn't qualify for in the first image above? It seems like this new credit is also called a "Child and Depended Care Credit" too? Any help is greatly appreciated.

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