Employee Benefit Obligations

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2018

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Obligations

Defined Benefit Plans

HRG

HRG has a noncontributory defined benefit pension plan (the “HRG Pension Plan”) covering certain of its former U.S. employees. During 2006, the HRG Pension Plan was frozen which caused all existing participants to become fully vested in their benefits.

Additionally, HRG has an unfunded supplemental pension plan (the “Supplemental Plan”) which provides supplemental retirement payments to certain former senior executives of HRG. The amounts of such payments equal the difference between the amounts received under the HRG Pension Plan and the amounts that would otherwise be received if HRG Pension Plan payments were not reduced as the result of the limitations upon compensation and benefits imposed by Federal law. Effective December 1994, the Supplemental Plan was frozen.

On November 15, 2017, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the termination of the HRG Pension Plan, which is a legacy plan. As of March 31, 2018 and September 30, 2017, the HRG Pension Plan’s projected benefit obligation was $15.4 and $15.6, respectively, and the fair value of plan assets was $11.2 and $11.6, respectively. The HRG Pension Plan’s termination date is February 15, 2018. The Company expects to purchase annuity contracts in the third quarter of Fiscal 2018 to settle the Company’s obligations to the HRG Pension Plan’s participants. The Company accrued a $1.6 liability as of March 31, 2018 for the estimated additional cost to settle the HRG Pension Plan above the $4.2 unfunded benefit obligation amount.