Updated September 24, 2026. Quick answer: New Hampshire’s Medicaid home equity limit for a single nursing-home applicant is $752,000 for 2026. New Hampshire’s own rule (He-W 856.05) does not set its own figure; it simply adopts whatever floor federal law requires each year, starting from a $552,000 example figure in 2016 (itself exactly that year’s federal minimum) and updating automatically under 42 U.S.C. Section 1396p(f)(1)(C).
What New Hampshire’s own rule says
New Hampshire’s administrative rule, He-W 856.05, states the home equity test by reference to the federal statute itself rather than printing an annually-updated table: its example figure, $552,000 for 2016, matches that year’s federal minimum exactly, confirming New Hampshire adopts the floor, not the ceiling, and updates automatically each year as the federal figure changes.
Why this is inferred, not read directly
New Hampshire’s rule text was last amended with a 2016 example figure and was not found in a 2026-dated republication, so the current figure here comes from applying the rule’s own stated mechanism (the federal minimum, updated automatically) to the 2026 federal minimum, $752,000, that Missouri and Nebraska independently confirm from their own primary sources this same year.
| 2026 federal minimum | $752,000 |
| 2026 federal maximum | $1,130,000 |
| New Hampshire’s 2026 home equity limit | $752,000 |
| State citation | New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, N.H. Code of Admin. Rules He-W 856.05, “Real Property Resources” |
| What it says | “whose equity interest in their primary residence exceeds the 2016 limit of $552,000, updated annually pursuant to 42 USC 1396p(f) (1) (C) , shall not be eligible for such services” |
| 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 N.H. Code of Administrative Rules He-W 856.05(d) (gc.nh.gov), the CMS Informational Bulletin on the 2026 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards (April 27, 2026), and 42 U.S.C. 1396p(f) on September 30, 2026; not re-checked or not confirmed: New Hampshire’s own 2026 dollar figure is inferred from the rule’s federal-update mechanism and was not found in a 2026 state publication; the claim that Missouri and Nebraska confirm the $752,000 minimum 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.