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Employee Retirement Benefits | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2019
Retirement Benefits [Abstract] |
Employee Retirement Benefits | Employee Retirement Benefits NEE sponsors a qualified noncontributory defined benefit pension plan for substantially all employees of NEE and its subsidiaries and sponsors a contributory postretirement plan for other benefits for retirees of NEE and its subsidiaries meeting certain eligibility requirements. The components of net periodic income for the plans are as follows:
| Pension Benefits |  | Postretirement Benefits |  | Pension Benefits |  | Postretirement Benefits
| Three Months Ended June 30, |  | Three Months Ended June 30, |  | Six Months Ended June 30, |  | Six Months Ended June 30,
| 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
| (millions)
Service cost | $ | 20 |  |  | $ | 18 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 40 |  |  | $ | 35 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 1 |
Interest cost | 28 |  |  | 20 |  |  | 3 |  |  | 2 |  |  | 57 |  |  | 41 |  |  | 5 |  |  | 3 |
Expected return on plan assets | (78 | ) |  | (69 | ) |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | (156 | ) |  | (138 | ) |  | — |  |  | — |
Amortization of prior service benefit | — |  |  | — |  |  | (4 | ) |  | (4 | ) |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | (8 | ) |  | (8 | )
Special termination benefits(a) | 16 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 16 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Net periodic income at NEE | $ | (14 | ) |  | $ | (31 | ) |  | $ | (1 | ) |  | $ | (2 | ) |  | $ | (43 | ) |  | $ | (62 | ) |  | $ | (3 | ) |  | $ | (4 | )
Net periodic income allocated to FPL | $ | (18 | ) |  | $ | (20 | ) |  | $ | (1 | ) |  | $ | (2 | ) |  | $ | (36 | ) |  | $ | (40 | ) |  | $ | (2 | ) |  | $ | (3 | )
——————————————— (a) Reflects enhanced early retirement programs.

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