Pension and Other Post-retirement Benefit Plans Pension and Other Post-retirement Benefit Plans (Phantom) - Other Benefits	12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018	Mar. 31, 2017
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Defined Benefit Plan Assumptions Used Calculating Benefit Obligation Health Care Cost Trend Rate on Covered Charges	7.00%	7.00%
Defined Benefit Plan Assumptions Used Calculating Benefit Obligation Ultimate Health Care Cost Trend Rate	5.00%	5.00%
Defined Benefit Plan Assumptions Used Calculating Net Periodic Benefit Cost Health Care Cost Trend Rate on Covered Charges	7.00%	7.50%
Defined Benefit Plan, Ultimate Health Care Cost Trend Rate	5.00%	5.00%

Represents the health care cost trend rate on covered charges used as assumptions for calculating benefit obligation.

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- Definition

Represents the ultimate health care cost trend on covered charges used as assumptions for calculating benefit obligation.

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Represents the health care cost trend rate on covered charges used as assumptions for calculating net periodic benefit cost.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Ultimate trend rate for health care cost for defined benefit postretirement plan.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 715
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (l)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=82843861&loc=d3e1928-114920

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