You should make a “Request for Reconsideration” within 60 days from the date of your denial letter. More than two-thirds of the people who are denied at the first stage fail to ask for reconsideration. If you do not appeal within the 60-day period, you will have to most likely start all over, and could lose benefits. About 75% of those who ask for reconsideration are denied again at the second stage.