Brazil’s Finance Ministry said it plans to launch a centralised self-exclusion system by the end of the year, according to reports. The system is intended to prevent people who have self-excluded from registering with authorised betting sites, but no launch date has been set.
Operators may need to block self-excluded customers across authorised betting platforms once the central system launches.
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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.
It was reported that Brazil’s daily betting self-exclusion requests increased 588% during the World Cup’s opening weeks. SPA recorded 250,129 blocking or extension requests between 15 and 28 June.
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.
Brazil’s federal government promoted its central self-exclusion platform for authorised betting sites during the World Cup, according to the report. Messages shared through social media and WhatsApp also pointed users to a self-assessment tool and health services for gambling problems.