Retirement Benefit Plans

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2019

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,
	2019			2018			2019			2018
Service cost	$	74		$	63		$	224		$	189
Interest cost	264			240			791			719
Expected return on plan assets	(393		)	(402		)	(1,180		)	(1,205		)
Amortization of net loss	107			161			322			483
Net periodic cost	$	52		$	62		$	157		$	186

During the nine months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company made $93 and $22 in contributions, respectively, to its defined benefit pension plans. The Company anticipates making $57 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.