Overview
- On Day 21 of the shutdown, Gleaners is running regular food distributions for TSA staff at Indianapolis International Airport, with 225 of roughly 350 employees enrolled.
- The food bank has contacted central Indiana federal agencies and is extending support to federal workers and military families who are working without pay.
- USDA guidance has directed states to halt November SNAP benefits, affecting over 600,000 Indiana residents who rely on the program.
- Funding for WIC is projected to run out by the end of the month, threatening nutrition support for about 156,000 Hoosiers, many of them young children.
- Food banks cannot access supplies from the Emergency Food Assistance Program during the shutdown, cutting pantry inventory and increasing strain on local distributions.