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 […]

The Social Security Administration, SSA, will begin to offer expedited processing to veterans with permanent and total, P&T, service connected compensation benefits from the Veterans Benefits Administration, VBA.  The 100% Permanent & Total Veterans Initiative  will go into effect  on March 17th and allow severely disabled veterans a fast track to Social Security Disability, SSD, […]

Our Firm Wins $70,000 Award for Homeless Veteran in Pro Bono Case  Tooting our own Horn! Our office participates in the Center for Veteran Advancement/National Organization of Veteran’s Advocates Advocate Pro Bono Program.  The following is from their newsletter: Congratulations to Marcia Moellring, CVA/NOVA Pro Bono Advocate.  Marcia was successful in winning over $70,000 for […]

Success in Securing Benefits for Veterans Recently our VA department has been successful in securing benefits for several veterans and their dependents.  Dempsey, Dempsey, and Moellring represented a United States Marine Vietnam Veteran at a Board of Veterans Appeals hearing at the Regional Office in Saint Louis.  The veteran had a service connected disability rating […]