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If you receive $1,100 per month in SSDI payments, you would only receive $1,300 per month from the FERS program due to the amount you are collecting from the SSA. This would still total $2,400 per month. You would just be getting a portion of that $2,400 from FERS and a portion from SSDI. After the first 12 months of your disability you will receive 40 percent of your 3-year-average high salary minus 60 percent of whatever you receive in SSDI benefits.
I heard that everyone gets some amount of backpay from Social Security. Back pay (past due benefits) are paid out in just about every single disability case. This is true for this reason: Social Security Disability cases, from start to finish, can take take two years, or longer, to finish. During that time, the meter is running, so to speak, and you are entitled to receive monthly payments from when you first applied for disability benefits.