Retirement Benefit Plans

3 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

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 December 31,
	2018			2017
Service cost	$	75		$	63
Interest cost	264			240
Expected return on plan assets	(393		)	(402		)
Amortization of net loss	107			161
Net periodic cost	$	53		$	62

During the three months ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, the Company made $22 and $0 in contributions, respectively, to its defined benefit pension plans. The Company anticipates making $128 of additional cash contributions to fund its defined benefit pension plans during the balance of fiscal 2019 and will use carryover balances from previous periods that have been available for use as a credit to reduce the amount of cash contributions that the Company is required to make to certain defined benefit plans in fiscal 2019. 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 2019.