Retirement Benefit Plans

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2017

The Company and certain of its subsidiaries sponsor defined benefit pension plans covering some of its employees. The components of net periodic benefit cost of the Company’s defined benefit plans are as follows:



	Three Months Ended June 30,						Nine Months Ended June 30,
	2017			2016			2017			2016
Service cost	$	78		$	69		$	235		$	209
Interest cost	221			256			662			767
Expected return on plan assets	(404		)	(407		)	(1,211		)	(1,222		)
Amortization of net loss	215			210			646			630
Net periodic cost	$	110		$	128		$	332		$	384

During the nine months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company made no contributions to its defined benefit pension plans. The Company has carryover balances from previous periods that have been available for use as a credit to reduce the amount of contributions that the Company is required to make to certain defined benefit plans in fiscal 2017. The Company's ability to elect to use such carryover balance will be determined based on the actual funded status of each defined benefit pension plan relative to the plan's minimum regulatory funding requirements. The Company does not anticipate making cash contributions above the minimum funding requirement to fund its defined benefit pension plans during the balance of fiscal 2017.