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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.
This is because the benefit approval process is a lengthy one. For SSDI, your disability onset date could be up to 17 months before your application date, meaning you could receive payments for up to 12 months before your application date (taking into account the five-month waiting period).eep in mind that for Social Security Disability Income (SSDI), there is a mandatory five-month waiting period from the date that Social Security determines your disability began (your onset date) to when your monthly payments can start.