the challenge is further complicated by the fact that people who are extremely poor or highly vulnerable to extreme poverty have very little access to retirement or other pensions in most countries in the region the proportion is only around or less at the same time social security coverage the percentage of employed workers paying contributions is under eclac p in view of this trend eclac b pp if this transfer were to be targeted at all over s living in vulnerable households it would cost between of brazil s gross domestic product gdp and of the gdp of the plurinational state of bolivia