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Employee Benefits
 9 Months Ended
Oct. 02, 2021
Retirement Benefits [Abstract]  
Employee Benefits Employee benefitsThe Company sponsors a number of U.S. and foreign pension plans as well as other nonpension postretirement and postemployment plans to provide various benefits for its employees. These plans are described within the footnotes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company’s 2020 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Components of Company benefit plan (income) expense for the periods presented are included in the tables below. Excluding the service cost component, these amounts are included within Other income (expense) in the Consolidated Statement of Income.
Pension
 Quarter endedYear-to-date period ended
(millions)October 2, 2021September 26, 2020October 2, 2021September 26, 2020
Service cost$9 $9 $27 $27 
Interest cost25 31 75 99 
Expected return on plan assets(76)(87)(231)(257)
Amortization of unrecognized prior service cost2 1 6 5 
Recognized net (gain) loss83 7 63 64 
Net periodic benefit cost$43 $(39)$(60)$(62)
Curtailment (gain) loss(1)— (1)(7)
Total pension (income) expense$42 $(39)$(61)$(69)

Other nonpension postretirement
 Quarter endedYear-to-date period ended
(millions)October 2, 2021September 26, 2020October 2, 2021September 26, 2020
Service cost$3 $2 $9 $9 
Interest cost5 7 15 23 
Expected return on plan assets(23)(24)(69)(70)
Amortization of unrecognized prior service cost(2)(1)(6)(6)
Total postretirement benefit (income) expense$(17)$(16)$(51)$(44)

Postemployment
 Quarter endedYear-to-date period ended
(millions)October 2, 2021September 26, 2020October 2, 2021September 26, 2020
Service cost$1 $1 $3 $3 
Interest cost1 1 1 1 
Recognized net (gain) loss— — (2)(2)
Total postemployment benefit expense$2 $2 $2 $2 

For the quarter and year-to-date periods ended October 2, 2021, the Company recognized a loss of $83 million and $63 million, respectively, related to the remeasurement of certain U.S. pension plans. For the quarter and year-to-date periods ended September 26, 2020, the Company recognized a loss of $7 million and $15 million, respectively, related to the remeasurement of a U.S. pension plan. These remeasurements were each the result of distributions that exceeded service and interest costs resulting in settlement accounting for that particular plan. For the quarter and year-to-date periods ended October 2, 2021, the remeasurement loss was driven primarily by lower than expected asset returns. For the quarter and year-to-date periods ended September 26, 2020, the remeasurements recognized were due primarily to changes in the discount rate relative to the previous measurements.

During the second quarter of 2020, the Company recognized a curtailment gain of $7 million, as certain U.S. pension plan benefits were frozen for a portion of the population. The Company remeasured the benefit obligation for the impacted pension plan, resulting in a mark-to-market loss of $49 million. The loss was due primarily to a lower discount rate partially offset by plan asset returns in excess of the expected rate of return.
Company contributions to employee benefit plans are summarized as follows:
(millions)PensionNonpension postretirementTotal
Quarter ended:
October 2, 2021$— $5 $5 
September 26, 2020$1 $6 $7 
Year-to-date period ended:
October 2, 2021$2 $13 $15 
September 26, 2020$4 $15 $19 
Full year:
Fiscal year 2021 (projected)$6 $19 $25 
Fiscal year 2020 (actual)$8 $24 $32 

Plan funding strategies may be modified in response to management's evaluation of tax deductibility, market conditions, and competing investment alternatives.

Multi-employer pension plan exit liability
During the second quarter of 2020, the Company adjusted the estimated withdrawal liability associated with a plan withdrawn from during the third quarter of 2019. The adjustment resulted in a gain of $5 million during the second quarter and resulted from a July 2020 agreement with the plan under which the Company paid $7 million in full settlement of the withdrawal liability.