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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.
Application date. Retroactive benefits generally may not be collected for more than 12 months. If you add this year of retroactive benefits to the five-month wait period, the farthest back that Social Security will recognize a disability onset date is 17 months before the application date (12 + 5 = 17).nother type of back payment that may be available to individuals who are receiving SSDI benefits are retroactive benefits. Retroactive benefits are paid for the months between when you became disabled (your disability onset date) and when you applied for Social Security Disability benefits.