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Typo Yields $5 Million Budget Error

WOODBRIDGE, Va. -- Government officials in Prince William County are scrambling for answers after a $5 million budget shortfall appeared.

The error was discovered June 24 and reported late Monday afternoon, after government staffers preparing for the beginning of the new fiscal year -- which began yesterday -- found a data entry error that caused budget projections for the county’s payroll to be millions off the mark.

Of the county’s $961.5 million budget for fiscal 2014, $349.2 million of it is supposed to be budgeted to pay employee salaries. That number includes benefits and retirement, which comes to $85.2 million, according to the county's budget office.

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