Employee Benefit Plans (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Defined Benefit Plans Disclosures [Table Text Block]

The net periodic benefit cost for the Corporation’s Pension Plan, as determined by consulting actuaries, consisted of the following components for the three months ended March 31:

	2012			2011
	(in thousands)
Service cost (1)	$	39		$	15
Interest cost	806			853
Expected return on plan assets	(808		)	(837		)
Net amortization and deferral	420			72
Net periodic benefit cost	$	457		$	103

(1) The Pension Plan service cost recorded for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively, was related to administrative costs associated with the plan and not due to the accrual of additional participant benefits.

The net periodic benefit cost for the Corporation’s Postretirement Plan, as determined by consulting actuaries, consisted of the following components for the three months ended March 31:

	2012			2011
	(in thousands)
Service cost	$	53		$	51
Interest cost	87			107
Expected return on plan assets	(1		)	(1		)
Net accretion and deferral	(91		)	(91		)
Net periodic benefit cost	$	48		$	66