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.
Di Rupo-government pension reform raising the minimum early-retirement age from 60 to 62 and required career length from 35 to 40 years (phased 2013-2016); tighter eligibility for brugpensioen/prépension (early- retirement bridging into unemployment) now restricted to restructurings and extended career length thresholds; penalty coefficients for partial- career pensions. OECD estimated cumulative PV pension-expenditure savings ~€6bn.
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.