---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 4147"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "4147"
heading: "Administrative expenses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/4147"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — War Claims"
  - "Subchapter II — Title Ii of War Claims Act of 1948"
---

# §4147. Administrative expenses


There are authorized to be appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated such sums as may be necessary (but not to exceed the total covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts under [section 4336(d)](/usc/50/4336.md)[^1] of this title) to enable the [Commission](/usc/50/4131.md?p=b) and the Treasury Department to pay their administrative expenses in carrying out their respective functions under this subchapter.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(July 3, 1948, ch. 826, title II, § 217, as added Pub. L. 87–846, title I, § 103, Oct. 22, 1962, 76 Stat. 1113.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 4336(d) of this title, referred to in text, authorized Attorney General to cover into the Treasury certain sums for deposit into War Claims Fund, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 100–418, title II, § 2501(a)(1), Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1371. See section 4336(b) of this title.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 2017p of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.