Brazil’s Finance Ministry issued rules on 1 October requiring fixed-odds betting operators to block Bolsa Família and BPC beneficiaries. Operators must check users’ CPF numbers at registration and the first daily login, and close existing accounts within three days of identifying an impediment.
Operators must implement beneficiary checks, account closures and prescribed return-of-funds procedures.
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São Paulo state deputy Andréa Werner filed a bill to prevent recipients of state income-transfer programmes from opening or keeping active accounts with online betting operators. The proposal would require checks against an official benefits database and provide for warnings, fines, suspensions or permanent authorisation revocation for non-compliance.
Brazilian authorities require online betting operators to check users against the government’s Sigap system and close accounts held by recipients of public benefits. The rules took effect on 1 October 2025, giving operators 30 days to integrate the checks; operators must return any deposits, while beneficiaries face no penalties, the Finance Ministry said.
Brazil’s Ministry of Finance gambling secretariat published an ordinance barring welfare recipients from gambling online, according to a report. The available report text gives no further details about the measure.
Brazil’s Ministry of Finance issued Ordinance No. 1,237 on 5 May, adding beneficiaries of Novo Desenrola Brasil to the groups that may be barred from fixed-odds betting. A separate act will set the compliance deadlines and technical procedures for operators.
A Cruz Consulting survey found that 83.47% of federal social programme beneficiaries in Greater São Paulo had never used betting platforms. The research examined betting among recipients of federal social support.