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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.
Most of you have heard the term âlegally blindâ but you likely donât know what qualifies a person for disability benefits due to severe vision problems. Legal blindness is defined in two sections of the Social Security Act: Â§ 216(i)(B) (codified at 42 U.S.C. Â§ 416(i)(B)) and Â§ 1614(a)(2) (codified at 42 U.S.C. Â§ 1382c(a)(2)).