Phone disability hearings started soon after the pandemic was declared. It is a safer method to keep the hearing calendar going, but there are drawbacks to the process. The purpose of this post is to explain some of the pros and cons of the phone disability hearing. But I also wanted to go over some tricks …
I see this question a lot: How to cross-examine a Social Security Vocational Expert? Especially when the claimant decided to go to a hearing without an attorney. The main reason I tell my readers to hire an attorney is because of how tricky it can be to cross-examine a vocational expert (let’s call him “VE“- and …