Brazil’s Desenrola Adimplentes programme requires participants to enable a six-month self-exclusion from betting sites, Finance Minister Dario Durigan said. The condition also applies to beneficiaries of Fies Empreendedor and is tied to access to the programmes’ credit or financing.
Eligible borrowers must self-exclude from betting platforms for six months to access the programmes’ financial support.
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Brazil's online gambling self-exclusion total approached one million, rising by 225,000 users in barely a month. The report was published ahead of tighter betting-advertising rules.
Brazil’s Secretariat of Prizes and Betting reported that more than 1.2 million people had requested self-exclusion from authorised fixed-odds betting platforms by September 2026. The requests represent 3% of the 40 million active CPF registrations in Sigap, according to the reported data; the centralised platform began operating in December 2025.
Brazil’s self-exclusion platform monitors gamblers using legal operators, citing SPA-MF and SUS data. The report said the public health system also bears treatment costs for people gambling on illegal sites.
Brazil's Ministry of Finance reported about five million people blocked from betting platforms because of legal restrictions or self-exclusion. The total includes three million Bolsa Família and BPC beneficiaries, while 1.2 million people used the federal self-exclusion platform launched in December 2025. The figures cover blocks processed through the federal SIGAP system, not exclusions applied directly by betting sites.
Psychiatrist Hermano Tavares said almost 800,000 Brazilians have registered for self-exclusion through the Ministry of Finance website, in an interview on TV Cultura's Roda Viva. He credited the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting with approaching health specialists first and cited a three-question self-assessment that flags at-risk gamblers with over 90% accuracy.