Pension and Other Benefit Plans

9 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Retirement Benefits [Abstract]

Pension and Other Benefit Plans

Pension and Other Benefit Plans

The Company offers a number of pension and other post-retirement benefit ("OPEB") plans, life insurance benefits, deferred compensation and defined contribution plans. Most of the Company's pension plans are not admitting new participants, except where locally required; therefore, changes to pension liabilities are primarily due to market fluctuations of investments for existing participants and changes in interest rates.

Defined Benefit Plans

The Company sponsors a number of defined benefit and post-retirement medical benefit plans for the benefit of eligible employees. The benefit obligations of the Company's U.S. pension, U.S. OPEB, and non-U.S. OPEB represent an insignificant portion of the Company's pension and other post-retirement benefits. As a result, the disclosures below include the Company's U.S. and non-U.S. pension plans on a global consolidated basis.

During the three months ended June 30, 2020, the Company remeasured plan assets and liabilities as of June 1, 2020 under certain U.K. pension plans due to the end of a public sector contract. The remeasurement resulted in a net loss of $2 million, comprising a curtailment gain of $9 million and an actuarial loss of $11 million. The net loss was recognized within other income.

The components of net periodic pension income were:

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
(in millions)	December 31, 2020		December 31, 2019		December 31, 2020		December 31, 2019
Service cost	$	23	$	23	$	68	$	69
Interest cost	62		60		181		177
Expected return on assets	(163)		(161)		(477)		(476)
Amortization of prior service costs	(2)		(2)		(6)		(6)
Contractual termination benefit	—		—		3		17
Curtailment gain	—		—		(9)		—
Recognition of actuarial loss	—		—		11		—
Net periodic pension income	$	(80)	$	(80)	$	(229)	$	(219)

The service cost component of net periodic pension income is presented in costs of services and selling, general and administrative and the other components of net periodic pension income are presented in other income, net, except for contractual termination benefit which is included in restructuring, in the Company’s statements of operations.

Deferred Compensation Plans

Effective as of the HPES Merger, DXC assumed sponsorship of the Computer Sciences Corporation Deferred Compensation Plan, which was renamed the “DXC Technology Company Deferred Compensation Plan” (the “DXC DCP”) and adopted HPE's Enterprise Services Executive Deferred Compensation Plan (the “ES DCP”). Both plans are non-qualified deferred compensation plans maintained for a select group of management, highly compensated employees and non-employee directors.

The DXC DCP covers eligible employees who participated in CSC’s Deferred Compensation Plan prior to the HPES Merger. The ES DCP covers eligible employees who participated in the HPE Executive Deferred Compensation Plan prior to the HPES Merger. Both plans allow participating employees to defer the receipt of current compensation to a future distribution date or event above the amounts that may be deferred under DXC’s tax-qualified 401(k) plan, the DXC Technology Matched Asset Plan. Neither plan provides for employer contributions. As of April 3, 2017, the ES DCP does not admit new participants.

Certain management and highly compensated employees are eligible to defer all, or a portion of, their regular salary that exceeds the limitation set forth in Internal Revenue Section 401(a)(17) and all or a portion of their incentive compensation. Non-employee directors are eligible to defer up to 100% of their cash compensation. The liability, which is included in other long-term liabilities in the Company's balance sheets, amounted to $45 million as of December 31, 2020 and $48 million as of March 31, 2020.