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New Brunswick mother who left job due to COVID-19 ineligible for provincial emergency funds

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A New Brunswick mother says she’s frustrated to learn she’s ineligible for the province’s emergency funding meant to serve as a bridge between now and when federal funds kick in.

Lindsey McDonough of Burton, N.B., is a mother to a four-year-old daughter. She said she wasn’t even able to submit an application to the New Brunswick Workers Emergency Income Benefit.

McDonough expects it is because she wasn’t formally laid off. “If I’m not getting money and I can’t go to work, what do you expect?” she says. “It’s frustrating, very frustrating.” The New Brunswick government previously announced the one-time $900 emergency benefit for workers or self-employed people who lost their jobs due to the province’s state of emergency, if you met certain

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