The DPU (of the Union) updated the criteria for granting the grant, increasing family income from up to R$2,000 to up to two minimum wages (R$3,242) from January 1, 2026.
The resolution was approved by the Superior Council of the Public Defender’s Office of the Union. The previous criterion was from 2016.
The Defender’s Office’s work is aimed at people who cannot afford a private lawyer. In addition to the minimum wage criterion, those with a per capita family income equal to or less than half a minimum wage, beneficiaries of the Continuous Payment Benefit and elderly people whose total income comes from a social security benefit of up to one minimum wage will also be covered.
To define the value, a technical study demonstrated that the value of R$2,000, kept unchanged since 2016, “suffered an inflationary lag of more than 63%, representing today only 1.32 minimum wages compared to 2.13 minimum wages at the time of its institution”.
“This silent erosion promotes passive restriction on access to justice, progressively excluding the low-income population without any explicit deliberation about this exclusion”, he explains.
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