---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1106"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1106"
heading: "Unemployment compensation research program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1106"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter IX — Employment Security Administrative Financing"
---

# §1106. Unemployment compensation research program

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) of Labor shall—
  - (1) establish a continuing and comprehensive program of research to evaluate the unemployment compensation system. Such research shall include, but not be limited to, a program of factual studies covering the role of unemployment compensation under varying patterns of unemployment [including](/usc/42/1301.md?p=b) those in seasonal industries, the relationship between the unemployment compensation and other [social](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=20) insurance programs, the effect of [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) eligibility and disqualification provisions, the personal characteristics, family situations, employment background and experience of claimants, with the results of such studies to be made public; and
  - (2) establish a program of research to develop information (which shall be made public) as to the effect and impact of extending coverage to excluded groups with first attention to agricultural labor.
- (b) To assist in the establishment and provide for the continuation of the comprehensive research program relating to the unemployment compensation system, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) ending June 30, 1971, and for each [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) thereafter, such sums, not to exceed $8,000,000, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. From the sums authorized to be appropriated by this subsection the [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) may provide for the conduct of such research through [grants](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=10) or contracts.

## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title IX, § 906, as added Pub. L. 91–373, title I, § 141, Aug. 10, 1970, 84 Stat. 705.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1106, act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title IX, § 906, 49 Stat. 642, related to excusing payment of tax by engaging in interstate commerce. For further details, see Prior Law note set out preceding section 1101 of this title.