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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.
For example, if you make $2,000 a month, you would ordinarily be $350 over the income limit for a blind person receiving SSDI. However, if taxes, aids to working, transportation expenses, and visual aids totaled $350 a month, you would meet the SSDI income limit and thus qualify for disability benefits.ince blind work expenses (and impairment related work expenses) offset work-related expenses, rather than actually increasing your Social Security Disability benefits, they can bee seen primarily as a work incentive.