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Postretirement Benefits (Postretirement Benefits [Member])
12 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2013
Postretirement Benefits [Member]
 
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]  
Pension And Postretirement Benefits

Note 8 –    Postretirement Benefits

Postretirement Medical and Life Insurance Benefit Plans

We and certain of our operating subsidiaries provide multiple postretirement medical and life insurance benefit plans. We recognize the cost of benefits as the employees render service. Postretirement benefits are funded as incurred. At the end of the year, we discount our plan liabilities using an assumed discount rate. In estimating this rate, we, along with our third-party actuaries, review the projected timing of future benefit payments, bond indices, consider yield curve analysis results and the past history of discount rates.

The actuarial present value of benefit obligations summarized below was based on the following assumption:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2013

 

2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted-average assumption as of June 30

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discount rate

 

4.57 

%

 

3.78 

%

 

The net periodic benefit costs were determined utilizing the following beginning-of-the-year assumptions:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2013

 

2012

 

2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discount rate

 

3.78 

%

 

5.29 

%

 

5.21 

%

Health care cost trend rate pre-Medicare

 

10.00 

%

 

10.00 

%

 

10.00 

%

Health care cost trend rate Medicare

 

7.00 

%

 

10.00 

%

 

10.00 

%

 

Relevant information with respect to our postretirement medical and life insurance benefits as of June 30 can be summarized as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2013

 

2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change in benefit obligation

 

 

 

 

 

Benefit obligation at beginning of year

$

3,054 

 

$

2,881 

Service cost

 

31 

 

 

25 

Interest cost

 

113 

 

 

147 

Actuarial (gain) loss

 

(162)

 

 

70 

Plan participant contributions

 

55 

 

 

61 

Benefits paid

 

(157)

 

 

(130)

Benefit obligation at end of year

$

2,934 

 

$

3,054 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2013

 

2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change in plan assets

 

 

 

 

 

Employer contributions

$

102 

 

$

69 

Plan participant contributions

 

55 

 

 

61 

Benefits paid

 

(157)

 

 

(130)

Fair value of plan assets at end of year

$

 -

 

$

 -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2013

 

2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reconciliation of funded status

 

 

 

 

 

Net accrued benefit cost

$

(2,934)

 

$

(3,054)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2013

 

2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amounts recognized in the consolidated balance sheets consist of

 

 

 

 

 

Current accrued benefit liability

$

(187)

 

$

(191)

Noncurrent accrued benefit liability

$

(2,747)

 

$

(2,863)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2013

 

2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accumulated benefit obligation

$

2,934 

 

$

3,054 

 

Amounts recognized in accumulated other comprehensive loss at June 30 were as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2013

 

2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net actuarial gain

$

(784)

 

$

(644)

Prior service benefit

 

(18)

 

 

(23)

Income taxes

 

296 

 

 

247 

Total

$

(506)

 

$

(420)

Amounts in accumulated other comprehensive loss expected to be recognized as components of net periodic benefit cost during the next fiscal year are as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prior service asset amortization

 

 

 

$

(5)

Unrecognized gain amortization

 

 

 

 

(27)

Total

 

 

 

$

(32)

The following table summarizes the components of net periodic benefit cost at June 30:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2013

 

2012

 

2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Components of net periodic benefit cost

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service cost

$

31 

 

$

25 

 

$

24 

Interest cost

 

113 

 

 

147 

 

 

137 

Amortization of unrecognized net gain

 

(22)

 

 

(31)

 

 

(46)

Amortization of prior service asset

 

(5)

 

 

(5)

 

 

(5)

Net periodic benefit cost

$

117 

 

$

136 

 

$

110 

We expect to contribute approximately $0.2 million to our postretirement benefit plans in 2014.

Benefit payments estimated for future years are as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

187

2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

182

2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

189

2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

184

2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

190

2019 - 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

944

For other postretirement benefit measurement purposes, annual increases in medical costs for 2013 for pre-Medicare eligible claims were assumed to total approximately 8% per year and gradually decline to 5% by approximately the year 2021 and remain level thereafter. However, for Medicare eligible claims, the annual increases in medical costs for 2013 were assumed to total approximately 7% per year and gradually decline to 5% by approximately the year 2021 and remain level thereafter. Annual increases in medical costs for 2012 for pre-Medicare eligible claims were assumed to total approximately 10% per year and gradually decline to 5% by approximately the year 2017 and remain level thereafter. However, for Medicare eligible claims, the annual increases in medical costs for 2012 were assumed to total approximately 7% per year and gradually decline to 5% by approximately the year 2016 and remain level thereafter.

Assumed health care cost rates can have a significant effect on the amounts reported for the health care plans. A one-percentage-point change in assumed health care cost trend rates would have the following effect:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1-Percentage-Point Increase

 

1-Percentage-Point Decrease

Effect on total of service and interest cost components

$

 

$

(7)

Effect on postretirement benefit obligation as of June 30, 2013

$

195 

 

$

(171)