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Dominic Giannini

Certainty for 200,000 robodebt victims

Case files will be wiped for more than 200,000 welfare recipients unlawfully told they owed money. (James Gourley/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Almost 200,000 people who spent years fighting to clear welfare debts they didn't owe will have any active Centrelink investigations wiped.

The federal government will scrap the cases of robodebt victims still under review, with any potential debt no longer being pursued.

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