Unemployed Puerto Ricans fume as claims pile up in pandemic

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government opened a drive-up service on Monday to handle applications from thousands of people seeing pandemic unemployment assistance after weeks of delays and confusion over the program aimed largely at self-employed people stung by COVID-19 restrictions. The U.S. territory’s government said it has processed only about 3,000 of of 87,000 requests it has received since the online application platform…