The sum should equal the total approved amount of the fund.
He first began working on a salary of £56,000, but a local panel then recommended it rise to £100,000 which was rejected before the final sum was approved.
But the lower sum was approved by the Commons Standards Committee, which has the final say on whether to accept the commissioner's recommendations - a decision which sparked a backlash across the political spectrum and calls for changes in how complaints against MPs are investigated.
For the moment there's no new money involved: The $7,800 is the unspent portion of a $190,000 sum commissioners approved in August for paving, boarding up vacant units and installing water-shut-off valves, among other needs.
The pool of money the American military used here to employ hundreds of Iraqis for local projects has dried up, and the large sums recently approved by Congress for reconstruction have yet to arrive.
According to a new report from GlobalExpense, a provider of employee-expense services, the sums wrongly approved in 2008 consisted of roughly equal parts of fiddled claims and claims for items not covered by company policy.
Enter the sum in the Total Approved Petty Cash Fund field.
The Congress instead approved a sum of $2 million, the expenditure of which required approval of Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin and President Davis.
To date, Mr. Pottorf, Mr. Goldston and Mr. Grutman have paid themselves a total of $5.7 million of the $60 million in trustee fees that they say they are due — a sum that was not approved by any court and which Mr. Lile said he also considered "grossly excessive".
Congress approved the sum as part of the Elder Justice Act, which also incorporated other elder abuse planks and the ACL national reporting project, but has yet to set aside the money to implement it.
