Apparently, software errors CAN be hazardous to your health. The Tribune New Service ran a story on February 3, 1999 that people across the country are finding some disturbing information when they open their W-2 forms. They've been declared dead!

The problem appears to be that employers used new W-2 forms with old computer software programs. As a result, an "X" that should have been printed in the "pension" box appeared in the space denoting "deceased." At New Mexico State University, hundreds of employees opened their tax forms this week to find an "X" printed under the word "deceased."

It also happened to 13,000 city employees in Dallas, 350 municipal workers in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and schoolteachers in Dickson, Oklahoma.