"Disability Hearing Preparation"
96 Questions You May Be Asked And How To Answer

Listen To The Interview Below and Learn The Common Questions Judges Ask And How To Answer Them. More Hearing Preparation Tools Below The Video.

Question answering tips
1. Instead of yes-no answers use words like sometimes, often, usually hardly ever.
For open-ended questions use short concise two sentences or fewer statements.
For more details listen to this interview with Attorney Osterhout

2. Don't guess
3. Do not Lie
4. Don't volunteer
Let the medical records do the heavy lifting.

Questions you may be asked in your hearing

1. Hearing structure: applied to all: Brief opening statement from the judge followed by swearing-in and identity confirmation Raise your right hands state your full name. 2.How far did you stay in school?

3.Type of work you’ve done; Work experiences and descriptions

4.Why you stopped working?

5. Did you ever have any surgery on your neck (as identified in the records)

6. Do you live with anyone?SSA - 3373 question 7

7. How old is the mother? She helps around the house?

8. Drivers license? Vehicle to use? Have you been on any recent car trips?

SSA - 3373 question 15

9. Does your mother drives?

10. Things you do around the house?

11. Can you aid yourself?SSA - 3373 question 12 12. Can you prepare food? 13. Do you clean your home?

14. Do you have a yard that you to maintain?SSA - 3373 question 12

15. Do you do any shopping?SSA - 3373 question 16

16. Do you have any pets?SSA - 3373 question 8

17. What do you do on a typical day?Question 6 3373

18. When were you diagnosed with fibromyalgia?

19. Do you read books?

20. Tell me about you’re low back obstructions. Are you still having problems with your low back?

21. Details about the low back problem (identified in records)

22. Did the doctors told you that with fibromyalgia you need to be active?

23. Problems in walking? When did it start?

24. Tell me what medications you’re taking.

25. Do your fibromyalgia medicines help at all?

26. Prescribed any anti-depressant aside from the others?

27. What is primarily preventing you from working? And what do you attribute that to?

28. When did this first start to happen to the point where you couldn’t really function?

29. Can you rate your pain regarding the fibro?

30. Where do you feel the most pain?

31. Speaking of your neck, you have trouble holding your neck from one position?

32. How long can you hold one position?

33. Do you have a neck brace?

34. How long can you stand?

35 . Do you have trouble taking a bath? Going out in a crowd?

36. Do you still have trouble getting out of bed in the morning?

37. Tell us about bladder control? Do you still have problems? Do you still have accidents (bladder control)?

38. Headaches? How often?

39. How old are your children

40. You served in the air force what was your specialization code? What was that for?

41. In the application, you said you became on this date, Note if after herring

42. Have you received Worker compensation?43. Have you received Unemployment?

44. Describe the job for me (explain task or work environment)

45. Did your work require you to get up and down a bit

46. How much of your day would be sitting

47. How much would be interacting with people

48. What did you do as the district manager?

50. You are now getting paid through the military what is that for? Retirement or disability or both.

51. How much lifting was involved in your air force work

53. How much would you lift by yourself?

54. Do you cook SSA - 3373 question 13.

55. How does your illness, injuries, or conditions limit your ability to work. SSA -3373 question 5

56. Do you grocery shop

57. What is difficult about the grocery shopping

58. If you had to do the laundry on your own what difficulties would that present

59. Are you able to do the dishes?If you were to stand by the sink and do some dishes, how long would you last?SSA - 3373 question 20.

60. Hobbies that you enjoy.SSA - 3373 question 18

61. Do you have a computer or laptop? What does use that for?

62. How often do you get headaches?63. Are you being treated for any mental issues?

64. Do you take medication for your depression?

65. When you filed you mentioned memory loss can you tell me more about that?

66. Any problems sitting

67. Any condition that we have talked about that would affect your work

68. Has your condition become more severe since ?? and

69. Have you ever had vocational training?

70. Were you ever in the military?

71. Have you worked in dec 2018?

72. Are you employed in 2019?

73. What work did you do in your first employment?

74. How long did you work there?

75. Were you required to lift anything?

76. Were you seated most of the day?

77. Did you supervise anything?

78. You stopped working because you had surgery correct? Specifies the surgery (Checking medical records is accurate)

79. Have you seen dr recently?

80. Council inquires a certain diagnosis and how she is feeling at present (pls specify limitations post-op)

81. Dr Diagnosis Identification

82. Why are you seeing a podiatrist? (Claimant should specify diagnosis for the reason for this)

83. Are you right-handed or left-handed? 84. When you walk which hand do you need support with?(Make sure diagnosis is congruent with a diagnosis on which side is the affected area)

85. How many minutes can you stand or sit? (make sure clients read case theory to better support claim)

86. What are your symptoms? For Diagnosis

87. How often do symptoms persist?

88. Are you able to sleep okay?SSA -3373 question 11

89. How many hours of sleep do you get?

90. Do you see a therapist?

What is the name of your therapist?

Where is her clinic? Where did you see her?

91. Why are you seeing this specific doctor?

Back pain? Which part?

Does the pain radiate?

Describe pain 1 to 10? 92. Does the medication work?

Can you function in a work environment with that medication?

Explain daily activity (starting the day)

Be prepared to answer What were you able to do before your illness that you're not able to do now? SSA -3373 question
Do you pay bills, manage money SSA -3373 question 10

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Thanks for placing your trust in us to help you win your benefits. I'm in hopes that the tips and strategies you will receive in this course will take the confusion out of what to expect and what to do while you are waiting for a hearing.

Disclaimer: These are tips based on helping over 11,000 get approved. They are not guarantee's thus I'm will not be held responsible in any way for your case outcome.

Expectations:
Realistically, there are no guaranteed way to speed up the wait for a hearing. Having a strategy to survive this time is the best advice I can offer. Thus, I encourage you to understand that there is little, if anything, that can be done but wait.

How to estimate your hearing date:

This entire course is time sensitive and based you providing us with your hearing date.

To do so following directions in the video to estimate your hearing date or get your hearing date from your lawyer or contact us to help you estimate your hearing date.

1. Estimate date: We estimated your wait time based on the back log that SSA forecast on this SSA website.

https://www.ssa.gov/appeals/DataSets/01_NetStat_Report.html

2. Enter date: Once your estimated hearing date click here or on the web site below and enter the date.

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What to do while you wait:

(1) Read our e-mail.
Be on the lookout for emails with this in the subject line: Waiting for disability hearing:
These emails will have what to-do-steps and easy ways for you to update us on your condition(s).

(2) Continue your treatment:
Remember that we need to prove that you are being treated for condition(s) that do not allow you to work.

(3) Get Doctor support:
If you have doctors who have not yet completed the support form or any new doctors, this is the time to work on getting this evidence in your case file. Click here to see doctor support video and forms:

Tips:
(1) If you have a representative suggest that you do not send any information to SSA or answer any questions if they call do not answer it, but rather refer it to your representative to handle.

(2) Working while waiting what you should know.
Reminders: You will receive an e-mail from us at least once every 60 days during your wait for a hearing.

Use the 60 day reminder as an opportunity to update your representative on these items below. Even if nothing has changed, we would like to know. Keep a copy of your updates for you case file and be be prepared to bring to your hearing.

Examples of what you should update your representative on:

- Changes in your condition

- You've been hospitalized

- Seeing a new doctor

- Moved

- Received a notice from SSA that requires action

- Your treatment plan has changed

Its really helpful for representatives to know whether there has there been a change that will impact your case. Its our pleasure to help you get your benefits approved.

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