How Important Can a Vocational Expert’s Testimony Be in a Disability Hearing?
The process of being deemed disabled and able to collect disability payments is a long and hard road to take as if you are not going through enough with your condition that is stopping you from working. Social Security Disability Law in North Carolina can be made easier to understand and go through when you have the right advocates on your side. A vocational expert’s testimony can be vital during your disability hearing in helping to keep this process more streamlined and get you the benefits that you deserve.
A vocational expert on your side can help you to avoid a lengthy application and appeals process because the court respects their opinions and they may increase your chance of gaining benefits by quite a bit. The vocational expert is an impartial voice that helps the court to determine if can work or if you are truly disabled in that you are no longer able to work. The vocational expert on your case will evaluate the evidence that has been supplied about the work that you had previously been doing, and will then evaluate the condition that is preventing you from working based on information from your doctors.
Using their knowledge of occupational and industrial trends and placement of disabled individuals in the workforce, they can let the court know whether or not an individual is capable of working in their current condition. They evaluate how your past position was done by you, how it is done around the country, and determine if you would still be able to work based on your medical needs. When they have determined that you are unable to work, the court will either approve your claim or take it to the next stage where they work to determine if there are any employment opportunities available to you. If the vocational expert believes that you can still work based on national trends, your claim will be denied. This means that your evidence that is supplied to the court is vital to your case. Be sure to follow through on any testing your doctor orders, and go to your appointments to keep this written record of your disability up-to-date.
Contact the Clauson Law Firm, your Disability Lawyer in North Carolina to learn more about how a vocational expert can help you, and how we will be your advocates through this process. Being disabled is hard enough without having to jump through hoops to get the benefits that you paid into and are eligible to receive because of your current condition. Let us help you with this difficult process.
