Foodshare Albury Wodonga manager Peter Matthews said more people were accessing the service and needing help since COVID-19 restrictions began.

"People who previously had a job and had never really associated with the emergency food relief sector at all, have now been thrown into an area of need," he said.

Mr Matthews said the federal government's one-off $750 payment for welfare recipients and the six-month increase in Job Seeker payments had staved off some of the demand by allowing many people to better support themselves.

"At moment there are more people seeking support but that demand is being met," he said.

"In six months time, if the government chooses not to continue with additional support in Job Seeker, it's going to create huge wave of demand."

Beyond Housing's Celia Adams said the organisation had not seen a rise in people needing support just yet but expected an influx of people to contact them in the coming months.

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She said because most residents were working, learning or isolating at home, utility bills would be much higher than usual.

"People are probably okay for a little while," she said.

"In the next one to three months [people] will get those first utility bills post coronavirus, they'll have gone through any savings that they might have had or, if someone has been made redundant or lost their job, they will have gone through the payments they might get.

"We anticipate in the next one to three months we'll see an increase [in calls for help]."

Mr Matthews said the government had placed many homeless people in unused motel or hotel rooms across Albury-Wodonga to provide them with a base where they can isolate and stay protected from coronavirus.

Mr Matthews reassured residents the organisation had no shortage of food and had begun home delivery.

"Identifying when and where the shifting demand will occur is very challenging... but we know it will come," he said. "We're anticipating and preparing to make sure... food supplies keep up to meet the demand when it happens."