What she could do is take a certification course and then use that to get a job. Courses like that are really really cheap compared to a degree really. A medical certificate will get her any job she should so please to get.
“What she could do is take a certification course and then use that to get a job.”
Maybe, maybe not.
Here in NY, you can not go to school while collecting unemployment. If they find out, they cut you off. And make you pay back what you got.
Nor can you start your own business. You are not allowed to even make plans for your own business while collecting unemployment. That constitutes “work” and if you work, (for nothing) they will cut you off.
No, you need a propper degree to do well paying medical billing job.