One. If a child wants to help and the problem is medical, the answer is almost never money. It is a letter.

Read the whole denial.

All five pages.

Find the date and count sixty days forward and write that date on the envelope in marker.

Internal appeal.

Then external review, which is independent, which is free, and which overturns denials at a rate that would astonish you — the published figures run around forty per cent, and in equipment cases involving a documentation defect they run higher than that, because a documentation defect is the easiest thing in the world to cure.

And there is a free office in your state whose entire job is to help you fill in the box.