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As the committee that monitors MP spending meets to consider possible sanctions over NDP satellite offices Tuesday morning, the party says it now has 20 staff members stuck in limbo and working from either their homes or space in leader Thomas Muclair’s constituency office.

“We have 20 employees in Montreal have been living for the past few months waiting for this answer” said Gatineau NDP MP Nycole Turmel on her way into the meeting.

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“They’re under stress. We feel really sorry for them.”

The Board of Internal Economy is expected to rule today on whether House of Commons staff placed in party offices in Montreal and Quebec City comply with spending rules. They staff are paid through pooled contributions from the party’s Quebec MPs.

Most parliamentary staff work either in MP constituency offices in their ridings or on Parliament Hill.

If the board finds the staffing of satellite offices violated the rules, the NDP MPs who contributed to their salaries could be forced to pay back the money back, a figure expected to top $1 million.