12.	RETIREMENT AND POSTRETIREMENT PLANS

The Holding Company or the Bank maintains the Retirement Plan of The Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh (the "Employee Retirement Plan"), the Retirement Plan for Board Members of Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. (the "Outside Director Retirement Plan"), the BMP, and the Postretirement Welfare Plan of The Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh (the "Postretirement Plan"). Net expenses associated with these plans were comprised of the following components:

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2014					Three Months Ended March 31, 2013
	BMP, Employee and Outside Director Retirement Plans			Postretirement Plan		BMP, Employee and Outside Director Retirement Plans			Postretirement Plan

Service cost	$	$ -		$	10	$	$ -		$	15
Interest cost		338			58		290			57
Expected return on assets		(444	)		-		(380	)		-
Amortization of unrealized loss		261			-		587			12
Net periodic cost	$	155		$	68	$	497		$	84

The Company disclosed in its consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2013 that it expected to make contributions to, or benefit payments on behalf of, benefit plans during 2014 as follows: Employee Retirement Plan - $30, BMP - $538, Outside Director Retirement Plan - $190, and Postretirement Plan - $169. The Company made contributions of $7 to the Employee Retirement Plan during the three months ended March 31, 2014, and expects to make the remainder of the estimated contributions during 2014. The Company made benefit payments of $45 on behalf of the Outside Director Retirement Plan during the three months ended March 31, 2014, and expects to make the remainder of the estimated net contributions or benefit payments during 2014. The Company made benefit payments totaling $14 on behalf of the Postretirement Plan during the three months ended March 31, 2014, and expects to make the remainder of the estimated $169 of contributions or benefit payments during 2014. The Company did not make any defined benefit contributions to, or benefit payments on behalf of, the BMP during the three months ended March 31, 2014, and does not currently expect to make benefit payments on behalf of the BMP during 2014, since anticipated retirements that formed the basis for these expected benefit payments in 2014 are presently not expected to occur.