因为找工作，把孩子放在daycare，也是qualified.

去查一下， form 2441 instruciton and publication 503.

再说，你怎么知道人家裁员后找不到工作呢？

Qualified Expenses
These include amounts paid for household services and care of the qualifying person while you worked or looked for work. Child support payments are not qualified expenses. Also, expenses reimbursed by a state social service agency are not qualified expenses unless you included the reimbursement in your income.

Generally, if you worked or actively looked for work during only part of the period in which you incurred the expenses, you must figure your expenses for each day. However, there are special rules for temporary absences or part-time work. See Pub. 503 for more details.