Lula Sanctions Law Establishing ‘Pix Pensão’ for Automatic Child‑Support Transfers

Overview

• President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sanctioned the Pix Pensão law at the Palácio do Planalto on Wednesday, July 29, as part of a ceremony that also signed measures on violence against women.
• Under the new rule judges will be able to order monthly automatic transfers by Pix from a payer’s account to a beneficiary’s account and must specify amount, schedule and account details in the decision.
• Financial institutions are legally obliged to execute the transfers on court‑defined dates and must trigger automatic blocking of other financial assets linked to the payer’s CPF if there is no sufficient balance.
• Blocked assets may be converted into seizure if default continues and the law explicitly covers informal workers, self‑employed people and individual microentrepreneurs whose business accounts can be reached.
• The measure requires the National Council of Justice to collect and publish pension case data, aims to reduce repeated court motions and civil imprisonment for nonpayment, and will demand technical integration between courts, banks and Banco Central to operate.