Coverage is also high in Brazil, partly thanks to a rural pension, equal to the minimum wage, for which only a proof of past rural work-not contributions - is required. Mexico is another interesting case that has travelled the path towards widespread coverage quite rapidly in the past two decades (Willmore 2014).The Pension Alimentaria (Maintenance Pension), a universal old age pension for residents of Mexico City, was first paid in 2001 and legislated as a right in 2003 for older adults aged 70 or over (reduced to 68 or over in 2009). This experience encouraged the development of a number of NC pension schemes at the regional and national level. The age of eligibility was reduced to 65 and the benefit is now a flat transfer equivalent to about US$39.9 Per month (Table 7-1, see also Willmore 2014).