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PENSION AND POST-RETIREMENT PLANS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
PENSION AND POST-RETIREMENT PLANS  
PENSION AND POST-RETIREMENT PLANS

4.                          PENSION AND POST-RETIREMENT PLANS

 

The Company sponsors qualified defined-benefit pension and post retirement plans (collectively, the “Plans”). The following table provides the components of net periodic benefit cost for the Plans for the three-months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013 (in millions):

 

 

 

Pension Benefits

 

Post-retirement Benefits

 

 

 

March 31,

 

March 31,

 

 

 

2014

 

2013

 

2014

 

2013

 

Service cost

 

$

0.8

 

$

0.7

 

$

0.3

 

$

0.3

 

Interest cost

 

2.4

 

2.1

 

0.6

 

0.5

 

Expected return on plan assets

 

(3.5

)

(2.7

)

 

 

Amortization of net loss

 

0.8

 

2.0

 

0.1

 

0.2

 

Amortization of prior service cost

 

(0.6

)

(0.6

)

 

 

Net periodic benefit cost

 

$

(0.1

)

$

1.5

 

$

1.0

 

$

1.0

 

 

In 2014, the Company expects to pay total cash contributions to its defined benefit pension plans of approximately $6.6 million, all of which has yet to be contributed as of March 31, 2014.