in 2008 due to the expansion of Renta Dignidad, but it remained static after­wards; nevertheless, it is the highest in the region. Argentina approved mea­sures, before the re-reform, in order to extend contributory coverage, allowing the insured to retire without fulfilling the 30-year required contributions, also to self-employed workers who lacked complete documentation, but EAP coverage remained static; older adult coverage increased by six percentage points(2007­2009) but had lost them in 2018. The Salvadoran re-reform took no action, hence failing to comply with the mandate of the 1996 structural reform to extend cov­erage to groups difficult to incorporate; coverage cannot be measured because there is only one year for observation, but statistics show that in 2018 both cov­erages were below the zenith previously reached. 3. Social Solidarity and Gender Equity Social solidarity improved in Argentina and Bolivia when the private pillar/sys­tem that lacked social solidarity closed and when all the insured were trans­ferred to the public system with intergenerational solidarity. Likewise, Argentina extended the contributory system for lower-income groups and expanded social inclusion of the older-adult population to mothers as for non-contributory pen­sions. Bolivia universalized and reduced the age for Renta Dignidad; it created the semi-contributory pension, as well as a solidarity fund and a solidarity contribu­tion charged to the employer and high-income insured. The Chilean re-reform infused social solidarity in the private system by creating two solidarity bene­fits financed by the state: the Pensión Básica Universal(Universal Basic Pension: PBU) and the Aporte Previsional Solidario(Solidarity Pension Contribution: APS) complementing the contributory pension of those with low incomes and gener­ating progressive effects. 107 The Salvadoran re-reform of 2017 neither extended nor improved the non-contributory pension, but created three new benefits for the insured that are not entitled to a regular pension(the BET, the BEP, and the 107 A 2019 law increased the amounts of the PBS and APS by 20%; a bill in congress imposes a 6% contribution to the employer to improve lower pensions plus an increase in fiscal support to improve low RRs for women and expand solidarity benefits. 195