Government warns that registration for Pix MEI has not yet started

Individual microentrepreneurs (MEI) must be alert to attempted financial scams using Pix MEI as bait. According to the Minister of Entrepreneurship, Microenterprise and Small Businesses, Paulo Pereira, the initiative, which provides for the direct transfer of up to R$5,000 to each beneficiary, is still being structured and any promise of immediate release of money is a fraud.

"The program will only start to be implemented next year. There will be no Pix MEI this year. So, if you receive any message like “register here”, don't fall for it! It's a scam", warned Paulo Pereira when participating in the program Bom Dia, Minister, a co-production between the Secretariat of Social Communication (Secom) of the Presidency of the Republic and Canal Gov, broadcast by the vehicles of Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC).

The minister also warned that there are a series of rumors and unfounded questions circulating on social media, such as the one that claims that payment of the benefit, when it starts, will be divided into monthly installments of R$400.

The minister believes that this "misinformation" must have arisen from calculations made based on incomplete or false data, such as dividing the program's initial annual budget allocation forecast by the number of months in the year (12).

"This is not the design of public policy. The program will subsidize up to R$5,000 in specific investment projects, prioritizing sectors such as women entrepreneurs and MEI with lower revenues", explained Paulo Pereira.

"That's not the program. The criteria are still being defined and the details of the rules should be published by the end of this year, but we don't need to implement everything at once. We're going to test the program, prioritize sectors, create specific lines, prioritizing the portion of MEIs that earn less", explained the minister.

He warned that there are also many people stating, on social media, that the government will not be able to implement Pix MEI because it is not provided for in Complementary Law No. 238, which President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sanctioned on the 21st, establishing the Prospera Mei program.

"Pix MEI does not need to be in the law. It just needs to be included in the 2027 budget", said the minister.