Hope,

I think that if you are confident that someone has faked their level of disability to fraudulently collect SSDI/SSI, you should report them to the SSA. I believe that every faker and exaggerator out their costs the taxpayers a lot, and costs those who are truly disabled and now have to suffer financially while waiting a long time for their decision and benefits, even more.

That said, I believe one should be quite sure about such an accusation/report. So many of us suffer with "invisible" disabilities and can look "okay" on our rare trips to the outside world, but look very different most of the time when we are suffering at home. Picking up on your reference to your card playing acquaintance, I play poker......a few times a year. I take extra meds, need transportation and frequent ice packs, but I look GOOD (small brag, but I do get happy when I have the energy to get dressed up and put on make up, etc) Someone who just sees me then would, and should, think I look good. If I wasn't having a good day, I wouldn't be able to be there. Before that person decides that I "can't" be disabled, they would have to follow me home, see the poor state of the house because I can't do most household tasks and my husband refuses to, see me spend the next three days in bed with severe pain and exhaustion, etc They should also "see" all the invites out to play cards that I had to decline because I couldn't get bathed and dressed those days. They should "see" the extra meds that I have to take on days that I am trying to go out into the real world. They should "see" me have to ask one of my teenage sons to help me get a bra on or help me get from my bed to the bathroom. Looks can be deceiving on the outside looking in.

If you do know these people/their situation well and your sure about your read on them, I'd report them.