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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 are approved, you can receive up to twelve months of Social Security Disability back pay for months prior to your date of application. When you are trying to figure how many months of back pay you will receive, count up the number of full calendar months between when your disability began and when you expect your first check. Then subtract five months. You have to subtract five months because Social Security does not pay the first five full calendar months of disability.