St. Louis Office Now Handling West Central Illinois and Northeast Missouri Cases:         After nine years of dealing with the Columbia Office of Hearings Operations (formerly known as the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review), jurisdiction for all the cases heard in Hannibal is returning to St. Louis Missouri. That means that […]

Dempsey and Dempsey, PC sponsored the production at Bluff City Theatre!

Dempseys to be presenters at National Organization of Social Security Claims Representatives Spring Conference in Atlanta. Terrell and Vicki Dempsey have been selected to provide a sixty-minute presentation to attendees at the Spring NOSSCR Conference in Atlanta, April 25 – 28, 2018.  Entitled “Thirty Years in the Trenches,” the Dempseys will share their formula for success […]

    The Law Firm of Dempsey & Dempsey, P.C. was one of of the sponsors for the lights in Washington Park this holiday season. Our firm is always seeking ways to give back to the community, and we thought adding a little light and cheer to the holiday season would be a great contribution.

Disability Newsletter The Law Firm of Dempsey & Dempsey, P.C. Disability Advocates in Illinois and Missouri “My Lawyer told me not to work!” People get confused about what we tell our clients about working. Let us make this very clear: If a client can work and successfully keep a job, we strongly believe that is […]

Disability Newsletter The Law Firm of Dempsey & Dempsey, P.C. Disability Advocates in Illinois and Missouri Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants are now Acceptable Medical Sources! The Social Security Administration has made an important change in how it views medical and opinion evidence from Advance Practice Registered Nurses and Physicians Assistants. They are now included […]

Disability Newsletter The Law Firm of Dempsey & Dempsey, P.C. Disability Advocates in Illinois and Missouri Social Security Hearings One of the things we do in our semiannual newsletter is to try to keep you apprised to some extent of what is going on in the region in Social Security Disability. For the first time […]

Disability Newsletter The Law Firm of Dempsey & Dempsey, P.C. Disability Advocates in Illinois and Missouri A Word about this Edition of our Newsletter. I just finished meeting with a lady with a very nasty medical problem – progressive supranuclear palsy. She’s a lovely lady in her fifties who has worked hard all of her […]

Social Security Backlog in Our Region: Among Worst in Nation According to the Social Security Administration, our clients in Northeast Missouri and West Central Illinois are some of the worst-served in the United States.  The St. Louis Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) ranks 158th out of 162 offices.  At the end of May, the office […]

SOCIAL SECURITY CASES HEARD IN HANNIBAL REASSIGNED TO ST. LOUIS ODAR In November our office was notified that all of our cases which are heard in Hannibal – all of our Illinois cases as well as the eastern two-thirds of Northeast Missouri — are being transferred back to the St. Louis Office of Disability Adjudication […]