Persons Present in the Social Security Hearing Room
Your place will be at the conference table next to your attorney. Sometimes, the presiding judge may call a doctor or vocational witness to testify. In such cases, these witnesses will also be seated at the conference table.
Another person who will also sit at the conference table, or at a smaller table in the same room, will be the judge’s assistant. They will have a computer in order to record the hearing onto a CD-ROM.
Your own witnesses and/or observers can be brought into the hearing room as well. However, the hearing is private and anyone else present other than the judge, his staff and witnesses, needs your specified permission.
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Hearings for Social Security Disability Are Not Formal
The hearings for Social Security disability cases are not as formal as court hearings. The reason for this is to provide a less threatening situation. It’s best to be in a relaxed state, as the Social Security Administration (SSA) believes you can better be yourself when you’re feeling comfortable.
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While this is not a formal hearing, several procedures should still be followed:
Both your witnesses and yourself must testify under oath.
No one else in the room should help you answer questions while you are testifying.
Only one person can testify at a time.
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