Updated September 24, 2026. Quick answer: Connecticut’s Medicaid home equity limit for a single nursing-home applicant is $1,130,000 for 2026, stated directly on the state’s own current consumer page. Connecticut set its starting threshold at the higher of the two federal options when the rule began, $750,000, and has increased it every year since by the Consumer Price Index, which has pushed the figure to match the current federal maximum.
What Connecticut’s own page says
Connecticut’s Office of Policy and Management states the 2026 figure directly and in plain language, on a page addressed to consumers rather than caseworkers: home equity above $1,130,000 makes a nursing-home Medicaid applicant ineligible, and the page itself notes the amount is adjusted every year for inflation.
Why Connecticut is at the top of the federal range
Connecticut’s Department of Social Services elected the higher of the two amounts federal law allowed when the home-equity rule was created in 2006, $750,000 rather than $500,000, and has applied the same annual Consumer-Price-Index increase every year since. That compounding puts Connecticut’s 2026 figure at the current federal ceiling, $1,130,000, matching what states that elected the maximum option publish this year.
| 2026 federal minimum | $752,000 |
| 2026 federal maximum | $1,130,000 |
| Connecticut’s 2026 home equity limit | $1,130,000 |
| State citation | Connecticut Office of Policy and Management, CT Partnership for Long-Term Care, “Partnership Consumer Government Programs” |
| What it says | “Please note that an individual applying for long-term care services under Medicaid is ineligible for payment of long-term care services if his or her equity interest in their home property exceeds $1,130,000 (this amount will be adjusted each year based on the Consumer Price Index).” |
| Federal statute | 42 U.S.C. § 1396p(f)(1)(C) (the federal statute setting the home equity minimum/maximum range and its annual CPI-U adjustment) |
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Figures verified against the CMS Informational Bulletins of December 9, 2025 and April 27, 2026 (2026 home equity limits: minimum $752,000, maximum $1,130,000) and 42 U.S.C. 1396p(f), and the Connecticut OPM Partnership Consumer Government Programs page on September 30, 2026; Connecticut’s original $750,000 election was not re-checked.
Every citation on this page was read directly from the state’s own Medicaid agency, administrative code, or official eligibility manual this session. General information, not legal or financial advice; a figure this specific can change with a budget cycle or a federal inflation adjustment, and a county or state caseworker has the final say on any individual application.