If you are receiving disability and you turn sixty-five, will your disability be stopped when you start receiving Social Security, or will you be receiving both Disability and Social Security?

Q. If you are receiving disability and you turn sixty-five, will your disability be stopped when you start receiving Social Security, or will you be receiving both Disability and Social Security?

A. Social Security Disability Insurance benefits are Social Security. Essentially Disability Insurance is a retirement benefit paid early because the wage earner became too disabled to continue working.

At full retirement age, disability benefits are automatically converted to retirement benefits. The benefit itself does not change.