 Two days later, on June 21, 2013, the Nova Scotia government announced that it was holding back Zinck's $51,000 transition allowance until it could ensure Zinck would pay back the money he owes, a move Zinck said was not fair when informed of it.Zinck stated upon his resignation that he didn't want to lose the transition allowance because a single mother employed at his constituency office would then be left with no income.However, Speaker of the Legislature Gordie Gosse said that the employee in question is paid from a separate fund administered by Gosse's office, and would not suffer from the loss of the transition allowance as Zinck had claimed.