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Employee Retirement Benefits
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Employee Retirement Benefits

NOTE 10 – EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT BENEFITS

 

The following summarizes the components of net periodic costs for our qualified and supplemental pension plans:

 

  Three months ended September 30,     Nine months ended September 30,  
(In millions)   2012     2011     2012     2011  
Service cost   $ 3     $ 3     $ 9     $ 8  
Interest cost     4       4       11       11  
Expected return on plan assets     (4 )     (4 )     (12 )     (12 )
Amortization of actuarial loss and prior service cost     2       1       5       3  
Net periodic benefit cost   $ 5     $ 4     $ 13     $ 10  

 

See our 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K, Item 8, Note 13, Employee Retirement Benefits, Page 130, for information on our retirement benefits. We made matching contributions of $2 million to our 401(k) and Top Hat savings plans during both the third quarter of 2012 and 2011 and contributions of $7 million and $6 million for the first nine months of 2012 and 2011, respectively.

 

We contributed $14 million to our qualified pension plan during the third quarter of 2012. We do not anticipate further contributions to our qualified pension plan during the remainder of 2012.