If you receive Workers Compensation payments, Social Security will consider this income an offset of your benefit amount. The SSA determines this offset when calculating your Social Security Benefit amount. For example, Social Security will offset your disability payments from Workers Compensation benefits by adding them to your Social Security Disability amount. However, your payments will be reduced in many states if your Social Security benefits and Workers Compensation earnings exceed 80% of your average earnings. If you have received an offset of your benefit amount, it will continue until you pay the total amount of Workers Compensation benefits. This is sometimes called your settlement amount. The other way to end your offset of Social Security benefits is when your disability benefits switch to retirement benefits. Then it would no longer be applicable.