Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
Restructured the Klimabonus per-capita rebate introduced in 2022 from a universal per-capita payment to a means-tested transfer phasing out above an income threshold, part of the OeVP-SPOe-NEOS consolidation programme. Regional graduation (categories I-IV) retained but aggregate payout envelope reduced. Reform criticised by Greens and ecological-economics advocates as breaking the canonical carbon-price-plus-dividend design; defended by the coalition as fiscal consolidation aligned with EU EDP obligations.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.