Two months after being furloughed from her position with a mobile ultrasound service Meagan Johnson, a veteran medical assistant, said she still has no unemployment benefits from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity. “It’s messed up,” Johnson said. “My bank account is overdrawn.
I have bills, I keep calling trying to get them postponed.” Johnson has worked for Life Line Screening for 7 years. On March 29 she was furloughed because of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Her status on the Department of Employment Opportunity’s website CONNECT went from pending to ineligible that despite being employed with the Jacksonville mobile team since June 2019. “The day it turned ineligible was the day the rest of my co-workers got paid," she said.