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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.
The first month counted as part of the waiting. period can be no more than 17 months before the month of application and thus, retroactive. benefits are limited to 12 months from the date of application. 1 For more information on the SSDI program, see CRS Report RL32279, Primer on Disability Benefits: Social Security.