Employee Benefit Plan

The Company sponsors a cash balance defined benefit pension plan that covers substantially all of its salaried employees (the “Pension Plan”). In November 2012, the Board of Directors approved the termination of the Company’s Pension Plan. In March 2013, the Pension Plan was frozen until the final regulatory approvals are received and the Pension Plan’s assets will be distributed and used to pay excise taxes with any remaining assets to revert back to the Company. Upon settlement, the Company expects to recognize further estimated losses that will significantly affect the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations once the final regulatory approvals are received and the Pension Plan assets are distributed, which the Company expects to occur in late 2014 or 2015. However, the Company cannot provide any assurance as to the timing of these matters.

A summary of the net periodic pension cost are as follows:



	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2014		2013
Service cost	$	—	$	258
Interest cost	185		170
Expected loss (return) on assets	137		(446		)
Amortization of loss	132		97
Settlement charges	240		—
Net periodic pension cost	$	694	$	79

The following table includes the assumptions used to develop net periodic pension cost and benefit obligations:



	March 31, 2014	December 31, 2013
Discount rate	3.93%	4.37%
Expected long term rate on plan assets	—%	—%
Rate of compensation increase	N/A	N/A