at what age does disability move to social security
Moreover, workers who became disabled between age 62 and the full retirement age would still have access to Social Security retirement benefits, although those benefits would be less than the disability benefits available under current law.
In 2011, 8 percent of workers who became newly entitled to disability benefits were age 62 or older. Those people would have received significantly lower benefits from Social Security if they had been ineligible for DI and had applied for retirement benefits instead.