it has nothing to do with your assets, just whether you can hold a job at a reasonably equivalent level to what you had before--so if you were a research chemist, they can't disallow you disability because you could sweep floors, still.

Connecticut really sucks for denying, delaying appeals, delaying hearings. Go ahead and get it started now. I was denied, first appeal denied, (then maybe a second, I forget?) then put in for a hearing. I think it took over a year to get to where we put in for the hearing. Then it took something like a year and a half to get notified of a hearing date, which was six months away. Then it took 3 months to get the decision, then it took 3 more months to get the money. (you get back pay from your application date/disability elidgibility date, depending on which came first). So go ahead and get started. It's can be a long haul.