Pension And Other Postretirement Benefits

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Pension And Other Postretirement Benefits

Pension And Other Postretirement Benefits

NOTE 4 – PENSION AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT BENEFITS

The Company sponsors qualified and supplemental noncontributory defined benefit pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans for certain of its employees.  The following table provides the components of net periodic benefit cost for the plans.

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	June 30,						June 30,
	2011			2010			2011			2010
Pension Benefits
Service cost	$	1.4		$	1.7		$	4.1		$	5.0
Interest cost		3.1			3.2			9.2			9.8
Expected return on plan assets		(4.7	)		(4.0	)		(14.0	)		(12.0	)
Amortization of prior service cost		.1			.1			.3			.3
Amortization of net loss		1.2			1.0			3.6			2.9
Net periodic benefit cost	$	1.1		$	2.0		$	3.2		$	6.0
Other Postretirement Benefits
Service cost	$	.6		$	.7		$	1.8		$	2.2
Interest cost		1.2			1.3			3.8			3.9
Amortization of prior service cost		(.2	)		(.3	)		(.8	)		(1.0	)
Amortization of net loss		-			-			.1			-
Net periodic benefit cost	$	1.6		$	1.7		$	4.9		$	5.1