A/HRC/28/59/Add.1 parents are below 30 years of age (36.5 per cent), who live in single-parent households (30.8 per cent) or who live in rented accommodation (28.2 per cent) are worrying.32 56. The Government of Iceland should be commended for successfully combating poverty and social exclusion amongst the elderly. By raising the tax-funded guaranteed minimum pension above the minimum wage in September 2008, and by further increasing the guaranteed pension as a crisis policy measure in early 2009, old age poverty was substantially reduced (see figure 2 below). Gender differences relating to income poverty among the elderly were also closed. In 2008, 19.7 per cent of all women over 65 years of age lived below 60 per cent of the median income, or the poverty threshold, while in 2013, only 4.0 per cent did so; while income poverty among elderly men dropped from 9.5 per cent in 2008 to 3.9 per cent in 2013.33 Figure 2 People at risk of poverty or social exclusion by selected population groups in Greece and Iceland (in percentages) Source: Statistics Iceland and EU-SILC. 32 33 18 Statistics Iceland, Social indicators: Children and poverty, 10 November 2014. See EU-SILC, data available from http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/income-and-livingconditions/data/database.