Social protection and old age poverty 2010, para. 109
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States must design social pension schemes progressively to ensure access to social security for all. At the very least, they must provide protection to all older persons who, when reaching the retirement age prescribed in national legislation, have not completed a qualifying period of contributions or are not otherwise entitled to an old-age insurance-based pension and have no other source of income.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights