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incapacity), if the non-incapacitated parent or caretaker is personally providing care for a child under six (6) years old and demonstrates an inability, as determined by the Director or his or her designee, to obtain needed child care because:

i. Appropriate and affordable formal child care is unavailable;

ii. Informal child care (such as by a relative) is unavailable or unsuitable; or

iii. Appropriate child care, formal or informal, within a reasonable distance from the parent or caretaker's home or job search/job readiness site is unavailable;

f) A person who is ill, injured, or incapacitated as determined by competent medical evidence;

g) A person who is needed at home because another household member requires the individual’s presence due to illness or incapacity;

h) A person who is pregnant and presents medical verification that she is in the second or third trimester;

i) Individuals in a two-parent assistance unit who are already working in volunteer employment, work experience, or participating in another activity that has been approved as work participation, and the total number of hours in which the individual and the other parent in the assistance unit are participating is at least 35 hours per week (or 55 hours per week, if the family receives federally-funded child care and no adult in the family has a disability or is caring for a child with a disability);

j) A full-time AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) volunteer does not have to participate in activities with a job vendor;