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Most studies describing the attributes of bordering migrants residing in Argentina were focused on active ages but the absence of research concerning the elder was remarkable.This article describes the attributes of border migrants over 59 who began to receive funds from pensions and retirement allowances between 2005-2012. During that period, the social security coverage remarkably increased as a result of the re orientation of social security policy.The article provides some considerations about the social protection to international migrants. It summarizes the Argentine social security panorama towards the end of the decade. It refers to widening the social security coverage among bordering migrants. Finally, it analyzes attributes of migrants who began to receive social security benefits in the period 2005-2012.MethodologyThe status of new beneficiary was established on the basis of the follow up of individuals in pairs of successive waves by the Permanent Survey of Households in the years 2005-2012.The Permanent Household Survey of Argentina gathers information about individuals of prívate households in the main urban areas in this country, and for that reason it does not allow a characterization of the population residing in smaller areas or in collective households. It provides good quality data on labor participation, social security coverage at active ages and access to social security benefits at all ages. Moreover, it informs about the income from different sources and allows to determine poverty levels of individuals and households. It is performed on a quarterly basis thus allowing an analysis of trends. It foresees a scheme of partial rotation of individuals allowing the construction of panels which facilitate the establishment of transitions in the same individual. It provides information of better quality than the info provided by the population censuses, because they are carried out by specialized surveyors and by a periodical follow up of errors and biases. (Ribotta, et all, 2011). One of the limitations of this source originates in the sample condition of the information, which limits the possibilities of simultaneously considering different variables, especially when small populations are analyzed and they are offset with the simultaneous treatment of several measurements. ConclusionsThe possibility of having access to social security benefits depends on the labor story besides the density of contributions to the social security system of each individual. It also arises from the characteristics of the social security systems in each country, in particular from the dynamics and scope of the contributory and non-contributory components. Thus, elder people with precarious labor stories and non-existent or intermittent contributions to the social security system can only access regular benefits when reaching old age, mainly by means of non-contributory retirement grants. Most bordering migrants residing in Argentina have historically engaged in trades such as construction, domestic service, retail business and agriculture. The precariousness of their jobs limited access to retirement grants or pensions when they reached old age. Thus, the fragility of the stories of contributions to the social security system, in a context in which a contribution based social security scheme prevailed, resulted in a very low proportion of old bordering adults with benefits from pensions or retirement grants in 2005.The Argentine social security system contemplated granting old age pensions to migrants of seventy years old or over, with no social security benefits, on the condition of having resided steadily in the country for thirty years, and with at least ten years of contributions, five of which should have been made during the eight years previous to the application. The requirement as regards the time for the contributions limited the access to the social security system and explained the lack of social security benefits of almost half the amount of old bordering adults in 2005.