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Federal prosecutors said Friday that they have charged three Southern California women for stealing nearly $1.25 million in unemployment benefits.

The first carries a maximum sentence of 30 years and the second up to 20 years.

As we know much of the fraud has been in California, where state auditors in January said the troubled Department approved at least $810 million in names of roughly 45,000 inmates.

Since the arrest, California lawmakers on Thursday advanced the second of three bills that would require state unemployment officials to crosscheck unemployment applications with inmate records to identify fraud.

The measures would change California restrictions on inmate information that can be shared with other state agencies.

We are so glad that California is taking preventative steps to combat fraud so that this money can actually go to people who need it.

Up next, in another case of fraud, Kentucky is shutting down its unemployment system for four days as a result of recent fraudulent activity.

General Counsel to the Governor, Amy Cubbage, says, “Stopping fraudulent claims and attempts to hack the system have taken time away from processing current claims.”

She says scammers have been using “computerized automated processes” to try and guess the personalized pins of customers.