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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.
Legal blindness is a term used to establish eligibility for Social Security and other benefits. The next largest letters on most eye charts (2200) is the usual standard. These letters are 10 times larger than 20/20; this refers to best corrected vision only. No permanent damage is done to adults who wear an incorrect eyeglass or contact lens prescription. You may, however, be uncomfortable wearing them and annoyed by the inconvenience.