A software error caused 293 former state workers to receive twice their buyout payments, WJZ Investigates has learned.

Maryland officials are advising those who received the excess funds not to touch the extra money in their accounts, which will be taken back automatically.

The payments will be taken out of the accounts over the next several weeks, and the state promises to put the correct amounts into the accounts by November 19.

Maryland officials said they notified those impacted by email and by phone.

Maryland job cuts

Maryland formally eliminated more than 500 positions in state government on Wednesday, most of them from a voluntary buyout program . The move helps Maryland's struggling budget.

The state's spending board approved the cuts without question during its meeting on

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