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Employee Benefits | 6 Months Ended
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Apr. 30, 2015
General Discussion of Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits [Abstract] |
Employee Benefits | Employee Benefits Cooper’s Retirement Income Plan (Plan), a defined benefit plan, covers substantially all full-time United States employees. Our contributions are designed to fund normal cost on a current basis and to fund the estimated prior service cost of benefit improvements. The unit credit actuarial cost method is used to determine the annual cost. Cooper pays the entire cost of the Plan and funds such costs as they accrue. Virtually all of the assets of the Plan are comprised of equities and participation in equity and fixed income funds. Our results of operations for the three and six months ended April 30, 2015 and 2014 reflect the following components of net periodic pension costs:
Periods Ended April 30, | Three Months |  | Six Months
(In thousands) | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Service cost | $ | 2,037 |  |  | $ | 1,769 |  |  | $ | 4,073 |  |  | $ | 3,537 |
Interest cost | 1,064 |  |  | 987 |  |  | 2,128 |  |  | 1,975 |
Expected returns on assets | (1,513 | ) |  | (1,238 | ) |  | (3,026 | ) |  | (2,475 | )
Amortization of prior service cost | 1 |  |  | 6 |  |  | 2 |  |  | 12 |
Recognized net actuarial loss | 247 |  |  | 154 |  |  | 494 |  |  | 308 |
Net periodic pension cost | $ | 1,836 |  |  | $ | 1,678 |  |  | $ | 3,671 |  |  | $ | 3,357 |
Cooper contributed $2.5 million to the Plan in the fiscal first half of 2015, and expects to contribute an additional $7.5 million during fiscal 2015. We contributed $3.4 million and $4.5 million to the Plan in the three and six months ended April 30, 2014. The expected rate of return on plan assets for determining net periodic pension cost is 8%.

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