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The amount of Social Security benefits you receive, both when disabled and when retired, is generally based on your average lifetime earnings. However, when you become blind, you can request a disability âfreeze.â This means that your benefits calculation can be frozen where it was prior to your blindness.
Social Security Disability Benefits. If youâre getting disability benefits, you can earn up to $1,010 per month without losing your benefits as of 2012. If you are blind, the amount you can make increases to $1,690 a month before your benefits are terminated.ouâre entitled to your Social Security benefits even if youâre earning a paycheck. However, there are limits to how much you can earn before your benefits are reduced or terminated. The Social Security Administration has income limits for all three benefit programs and for the Supplemental Security Income program.