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.
Taxation of capital income (dividends, capital gains, inheritance, wealth). Distinct from corporate rate.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
The FY2026 budget paired higher medical, long-term-care, and disability welfare service fees with reforms intended to contain working-age social insurance contribution burdens. Measures included phased increases in some high-cost medical expense ceilings, separate patient payment for selected over-the-counter-equivalent medicines from 2027, exclusion of specified food-like drugs from insurance benefits from June 2026, and a bill to reflect listed-share dividends and similar financial income in elderly health-care cost-sharing and contributions. The package therefore combines provider payment and wage support with tighter benefit/cost-sharing rules.
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.