Social Security Disability Law Podcast

This is part two of a three part interview I conducted with attorney Bryan Konoski.  Bryan's practice is focused primarily on appellate work - filing appeals from unfavorable hearing decisions with the Appeals Council and, if denied at the Appeals Council, with federal court.In this part of our conversation, Bryan and I speak about vocational witness testimony.  As you may know, Social Security judges almost always call a vocational expert to testify at disability hearings.  The vocational witness will classify your past work based on exertional level (sedentary, light, medium, heavy or very heavy) and based on the required skill level (unskilled, semi-skilled or skilled) for that job.The judge will then pose a series of "hypothetical questions" to the vocational expert to determine if a hypothetical person could return to your past work or to any other work given specific work limitations arising from your medical issues.In our discussion, Bryan explains how he has been able to win appeals bas