Ask HN: Self-employed, RSI, back pain in NY. Any chance of receiving benefits?

I've been dealing with a repetitive stress injury (wrist and arm pain) and back/neck pain for about 4 years now. I'm 27. For the past year I've owned a SaaS site, so it's mostly passive income. Before that, I freelanced as a programmer. For both of those, I've only been able to work at a computer for about 8 hours a week, and that's still with pain. If I worked less, there would be less pain, and if I worked more (which I did sometimes out of necessity), it would get progressively worse, but I haven't been able to work less because I need to pay rent. From this page: http://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/disability/disability-benefits-self-employed.html I need to show that my work isn't the following: * provides significant services to the business and brings in $1,090 or more in average monthly income * is comparable to the work of persons without disability in your community engaged in the same or similar businesses, or * is worth $1,090 per month in terms of its effect on the business or what it saves you from having to pay an employee to do the work. Now that I own a business which is bringing in some mostly passive revenue (I answer user emails and send out invoices. I don't need to do much programming anymore), I'm hopeful that I might qualify for some assistance, since I can definitely make the argument that I'm doing less than $1090/mo worth of work now, even though the business earns a little more than that (and is growing). Does anybody have advice for where I can go for some help? Is SSDI/SSI the right area for me to be looking into, or is there somewhere else I should look? Am I better off focusing my efforts on building the business long-term and finding supplemental income so that I can get by without jumping through all the hoops of government assistance? That's been my thinking for the past couple of years, and my goal in starting this business, but I've decided to look into it again now. Any guidance is appreciated.