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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.
January 19, 2011. Social Security disability benefits go to those with long-term disabilities or illnesses that last more than a year or are terminal. A recipient must not be able to engage in substantial gainful activity to receive Social Security disability. The threshold for substantial gainful activity is $1,000 a month in 2011. Blind individuals may earn $1,640 a month. Social Security disability has work incentives to allow disabled individuals work opportunities without penalties. You may earn substantial income and continue your Social Security disability benefits for a time under an approved work incentive program.