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Gov. Chris Sununu (left) holds his weekly news conference on COVID-19 updates on Tuesday in Concord. (WMUR SCREEN SHOT)

CONCORD — About 35,000 residents who are now receiving unemployment benefits will lose their $300-a-week federal COVID-19 benefit by June 19, but Gov. Chris Sununu also announced a plan to use $10 million to incentivize people to go back to work.

Those who are on the unemployment rolls today can go get a job immediately and if they work for eight full weeks, they will receive a $500 part-time summer stipend and a $1,000 state summer stipend for full-time work, he said at a news conference Tuesday.

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