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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.
best answer not unless you are declared disabled and qualify to receive social security disability if you are on your own or your family is low income and you are under 21 you can get medicaid the ssi program makes payments to people with low income who are age 65 or older or are blind or have a disability the social security administration manages the ssi program even though social security manages the program ssi is not paid for by social security taxes