Alfonso Muñoz, Social Security official, on Greater Wyoming: "Retiring later than you should have a reward"

El Gran Wyoming, host of El Intermedio, announced this week his retirement starting in January, a departure after 20 years at the helm of the La Sexta program that will soon be occupied by journalist Fernando González, better known as Gonzo. "Throughout my life my greatest aspiration has been to lie around doing nothing. It only took me 71 years to achieve it," the comedian said last Thursday, after confirming the news. Alfonso Muñoz, a Social Security official, has also spoken about the retirement of Greater Wyoming, who in a recent video on his YouTube channel has explained the pension he could collect after a lifetime in front of the cameras.

"How much will Wyoming's pension remain and how much compensation will he receive for delaying his retirement?" he asked before moving "to the top of the table", in a nod to the gesture that the El Intermedio presenter usually makes when he wants to thoroughly analyze a current topic.

Regarding the quoted years of the presenter, 71 years old, Muñoz has highlighted that he has "a fairly extensive professional career" having been a presenter, musician, comedian, actor, writer and also a doctor. "Let's assume that taking into account its long history, it may have been listed for about 45 years. Come on, it probably started listing when they were looking for dinosaur fossils," he joked.

With 45 years of contributions, the presenter "could have retired at age 65," commented Muñoz, but he has continued working and contributing until he was 71, that is, "approximately six years more than what he was entitled to and that has a reward in Social Security," comments the official.

Thus, assuming that based on your contribution bases you have a maximum pension, which in 2026 amounts to 3,359 euros per month in 14 payments, about 47,000 euros gross per year, indicates Muñoz.

In addition, it should be taken into account that Social Security "considers an incentive for those people who decide to retire beyond their ordinary retirement age." One of the "options" is "to receive a lump sum of money, a check, to understand each other."

Making a simulation based on all these assumed data, and using the reference amounts in 2026, the expert indicates that Greater Wyoming "could be entitled to an amount of approximately 81,700 euros in addition to its monthly pension."

Despite this figure, Muñoz wanted to give "a reality check" like Andrea Ropero's in the program by clarifying that "we are talking about an amount before taxes. Don't think that the Treasury is not going to continue punishing you, but it is certainly not a bad reward for having continued working."