ANJL challenges Brazil’s automatic betting blocks for benefit recipients
Brazil’s National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) told the Finance Ministry’s Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA) that a new system blocking Bolsa Família and BPC recipients from fixed-odds betting may exceed a Supreme Court ruling. The association said the ruling barred use of benefit funds for betting, not recipients’ use of other money, and warned that blanket blocks could push players towards illegal markets.
The dispute concerns how operators must apply automatic betting restrictions to recipients of social benefits.