ANJL challenges study linking betting with household debt in Brazil
The National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) disputed a study by Ibevar and FIA Business School that identified betting as a major pressure on Brazilian household budgets. A column reported that ANJL questioned the study’s methods and said its figures did not match official household credit and consumption statistics; the association plans to commission a counter-study.
The dispute puts competing claims about betting’s effect on household finances before a pending Supreme Court hearing on benefit payments used for online betting.