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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.
If you receive disability benefits, you are also eligible to receive Medicare benefits. To qualify to enroll in Medicare, you must first receive disability benefits for two years, and you are automatically enrolled in Medicare on the first month of your third year of disability benefits.If you qualify to receive disability benefits, this means that you have paid Social Security and Medicare tax.his program pays benefits to people who are disabled or blind. Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits can start at any age as long as you have paid Social Security tax while you were working. Only individuals who are not able to work due to disability can qualify for SSD benefits.