How can we get my wife’s spousal benefit reactivated? She is a retired teacher and her Medicare part B premium needs to be paid out of that.

Hi. Without knowing why your wife's benefits were apparently suspended, there's no way for me to know what you'd need to do to get her benefits reinstated. You mention your wife being a retired teacher. If she's collecting a teacher's pension based on her earnings that were exempt from Social Security taxes, then the Government Pension Offset (GPO) would likely require her spousal benefits to be offset by 2/3rds of the amount of her teacher's pension (https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10007.pdf). If your wife's benefits were reduced to zero due to the GPO provision, then there may be nothing that you can do to get them reinstated. Your wife could potentially file an appeal (https://www.ssa.gov/apply/appeal-decision-we-made), but that would only help if the determination to stop her benefits was incorrect.

However, if the GPO provision isn't the cause of your wife's benefit suspension, then I don't have enough information to be able to give you any advice. I would suggest having your wife contact Social Security to discuss her options.

Best, Jerry