often these concern social assistance type payments that are phased out or withdrawn against other sources of income eg earnings or pension payments but not with basic pensions in china and the philippines oecd in eight of the asian countries with a noncontributory pension for which data are available beneficiaries receive less than usd ppp purchasing power parity a day and in out of countries this is less than usd ppp a day ilo a nevertheless these programmes can play a role in poverty reduction for example in thailand the oldage allowance bia yung cheep contributed to a decline in the poverty rate of elderly singleperson households from to and a fall in the poverty rate of all households from tto ilo a