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Convergence of generalized expectation under total variation norm

Let consider the space of sub-distributions (i.e. positive measures of variation norm lower than 1) over a discrete subset $S$ of $\mathbb{R}$ (this set is measured by its powerset).

We consider a sequence $(\mu_n)_n$ of sub-distributions converging to the sub-distribution $\mu$ under the TV norm.

Let take a function $f$ from $S$ to reals and assume that it exists a real $t$ such that for for all $m \in \mathbb{N}$: $$ \sum_n f(n) \mu_m(f^{-1}(n)) = t $$

(it is generalisation of the expected value definition for sub-distributions)

Do we necessarily have $ \sum_n f(n) \mu(f^{-1}(n)) = t $ ? (as a result of a limit exchange theorem)?

If not, what kind of hypothesis would ensure this fact? Trivially having $f$ bounded is sufficient but it seems to be a very strong condition....