Abstract: The public policy to support small businesses in Brazil began in the 1980s, to give more specific attention to small businesses and contribute to the country's economic development. The corresponding legislation, over time, created a new legal figure, that of the Individual Micro entrepreneur (MEI). In 2020, with the emergence of the new Covid-19 disease, many companies had to reduce their activities or even completely paralyze them, another part of these companies had an additional demand compared to the daily history of operation. This research aims to verify how Brazilian microentrepreneurs survived or not the Covid-19 pandemic period. To reach the objective of this work, bibliographical research was carried out, and to collect the information necessary for the analysis, exploratory research was used, of a qualitative nature, on statistical data from statistical research carried out by various agencies. The MEIs stood out as entrepreneurs with an undeniable growth of 20.1% in the period of the pandemic, participation in the composition of the economically active population in Brazil aged 21 to 60 years, and acting, mainly, in the activities of clothing and beauty and personal hygiene Ver menos