Should You Have Your Social Security Disability Hearing Via Videoteleconference, or What is Called a VTC Hearing?

During the time you are waiting for a Social Security Disability hearing to be scheduled, the Social Security Administration (SSA) will send you a letter saying that your case can be heard more quickly and efficiently by way of  a VTC hearing.

Should you agree to have a VTC hearing, this will mean that your case will not be heard in person before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ).  Instead, you will appear in front of an ALJ by way of a video camera.   SSA loves having VTC hearings as they ca...