Forced to be a poor invalid

It has come to my attention that the services I had hoped to depend on to return home and make a life for myself will be denied to me so long is I own more than $2000 or make more than $2000 in a month. The alternative is of course to stay in a nursing home. 

This is to say that if I try to gain employment and earn money for myself, my services will be relinquished, and I will have to return to a nursing home. So how is it that a quadriplegic works? Where do people get home care? Am I to spend the rest of my life laying around at home, doing nothing?

What do I do?