St. Vincent de Paul Boulevard Place Food Pantry will double the size of its building, at 42nd Street. It will also receive renovations. The pantry saw an estimated 30 percent increase in out-of-boundary shoppers during the COVID-19 crisis -- people living outside their typically serviced neighborhoods.

The state says people don't have to do anything to get the benefits; they should have received a new card in the mail or had them added to their existing food stamps card.

A group of Indianapolis nonprofits on Indianapolis' southside says the impact of the pandemic is still an issue for food insecurity in central Indiana.

Nine 13 Sports normally takes bicycles into learning environments to teach things like the importance of physical fitness. When school buildings closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it switched to food delivery.

According to Indiana's Family and Social Services Administration, about 600,000 children qualify for the pandemic-related benefit.

Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry in Garrett has an abundance of pigs sent to it from farmers because the meat processing plants it partners with are either closed or slowed down production due to the virus outbreak.

Connie Kristelli has been a food service supervisor at Indianapolis Public Schools for more than 30 years. She is one of many staffers who helped Indianapolis Public Schools serve more 242,000 meals since school buildings closed.

Food banks, pantries and other meal services are ramping up to help as the number of people in food lines grows, right when people are no longer allowed to stand in line.

Distribution will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Mondays and Fridays, beginning Friday, March 20. Families will receive one 17-pound box of food, which includes a variety of non-perishable meal-making items.