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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 Social Security finds that you still fulfill the eligibility requirements for SSDI or SSI, it will then send you a Notice of Award. If you are denied benefits, you will be sent a notice of denial, which includes information about your right to appeal. For SSDI, the nonmedical issues includes whether you have worked long in a job that was required to pay FICA taxes into the Social Security system. ( 2 Learn more about SSDI disability 3  .). For SSI, the nonmedical issues are determining your sources of earned and unearned income and the amount you own in countable assets.