Arnholt & Staggs Law Office

06/22/2025

Bartholomew County will offer several cooling station locations this weekend and going into next week as temperatures are expected to have heat indexes over 100 degrees beginning today.

05/13/2025

We learned today that we have had an issue with voicemail recently. All is now in working order. Please, if you have called our office and not received a return call, call or message as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience.

06/20/2024

Worked outside a bit today and that heat is no joke. If you need a place to cool off, this is good to know about.

Starting tomorrow, Tuesday June 18, the below Cooling Station will be open for anyone that needs to stop in and cool off for a short time. We are working on potential additional locations and will update if/when additional locations are added.

08/14/2023

Happy anniversary to ! On August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. Since then, Social Security has provided an essential safety net for workers and economic stability for our communities. Today, our duty is to continue improving this program, ensuring it provides support for generations to come.

12/09/2022

A quick update on where we are with the office after the building fire:

We still have not been allowed access to the building as insurance investigations are ongoing. I am told that once those wrap up, decisions will be made as to whether we may be allowed into the office to retrieve records, computers, etc. The concern there would be whether the building is safe enough to enter.

The good news: we have regained some access to our phone systems! We are now able to receive incoming calls. Soon, we should be able to receive voicemails. We will also soon have access to a list of numbers that have called in since the fire; however, unless we are at some point able to enter the office to retrieve our communications bank, we will NOT be able to access voicemails from this past week. So if you have tried to contact us at the office number, please give us just a little more time and we will hopefully be able to contact you. If you know anyone who is a client who may not be aware of the fire, please let them know and ask them to call in. The office number - (812)376-6011 - is now able to receive incoming calls. For the time being, if you call and leave a voicemail, please also send me a DM here or an email at [email protected] to let me know that we missed your call.

Finally, for anyone with an active claim, we have been working with Social Security and have been told that they will work with us to waive any missed deadlines or anything of that nature as a result of the fire. We have regained some access to our computer data, but not all. So to the extent there are any problems, please rest assured that our first order of business was to make sure that your claim would not be negatively impacted. For whatever it’s faults, the SSA has been very willing to work with us to make sure no claimants suffer any consequences related to the fire.

Thanks for the outpouring of community support we have received! We count ourselves very lucky to be part of the Columbus business community and we are humbled by the many people - friends and strangers alike - who have reached out to offer support in any number of ways. We will be committed to looking for ways to pay it forward in the future.

12/04/2022

I’ve just learned that our office building caught fire earlier this morning. I drove by while firefighters were still there. I couldn’t make out much, but it’s clear that damage will be significant, if not from the fire, then from the extinguishing of the fire. it was also reported that part of the building collapsed. From this picture, I cannot tell if the collapse directly impacted our section of the building, but I would assume the building will not be structurally sound for quite some time. I can only guess at this point, but I think it likely that we will be looking for a new office space.

I’m posting on social media this morning to let our clients know that we do have a plan for addressing disasters such as this. In the coming weeks, we hope to be able to proceed with any scheduled hearings without interruption. We will focus immediately on securing any documents in the office and protecting client information, as well as accessing computer backups and getting the electronic end of things back up and running as quickly as possible.. We will also be contacting all of our clients to provide updates about office location, hours, and contact information as we work those things out in the coming days.

Please check back on our social media pages for updates as things develop and feel free to contact us through social media if you are unable to reach us by telephone at 812-376-6011 or email at [email protected].

01/23/2022

Coming soon to an office near you!

The agency, whose offices were closed nearly two years ago, and the unions representing its work force agreed to reopen more than 1,200 offices.