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If you are blind, you should file for Social Security disability benefits even if you are working regularly and your earnings are too high to receive disability benefits. This alerts SSA to use a special formula that will give you a higher Social Security benefit when you are eligible.

• If you work while receiving Social Security disability benefits, you may earn up to $880 in 1993 before benefits stop. Sighted disability beneficiaries can generally earn only up to $500. -—you are getting Socail Security disability benefits and try to run your own business, we only look at net earnings to determine if your benefits can continue. We don’t look at the significance of the services to the business, as we do for sighted persons.

• Under the SSI program, Social Security deducts the cost of any work expenses to determine if your benefits can continue, whether or

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