“reduced my wife’s and my monthly payment $70 clams each.”
I think the cost of Medicare has gone up. Maybe that’s why your check is less. Also the deductible has increased. But you should have gotten a notice of your 1.6% cost of living increase to your check. Just don’t spend it all in one place.
There is a “hold harmless” SS provision whereby your benefit can’t go down from the previous year UNLESS yor income exceeds a certain amount the previous year.