Llona Geiger is among the hundreds of thousands of Floridians thrown out of work by the coronavirus.
Geiger retired in 2013, but continued to teach exercise classes at Tallahassee’s Senior Center on North Monroe Street. The classes stopped when the city went into lockdown last March, leaving her out of work.
Since then, she has been going round after round with the Department of Economic Opportunity s CONNECT unemployment system in an attempt to collect benefits.
Geiger has been trying to get a weekly payment she believes she s entitled to: I have a bundle of correspondence I sent them . but no response to any written material or assorted emails I sent on their (website).