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Employee Benefits (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2023
Retirement Benefits [Abstract] |
Schedule of Components of Net Periodic Pension Benefit (Income) Expense and Post-retirement Benefit Expense | Net periodic benefit expense (income) for the Lumen Combined Pension Plan (the "Combined Pension Plan" or the "Plan") includes the following components:
| Combined Pension Plan
| Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
| 2023 |  | 2022(1) |  | 2023 |  | 2022(1)
| (Dollars in millions)
Service cost | $ | 7 |  |  | 11 |  |  | 19 |  |  | 34 |
Interest cost | 67 |  |  | 53 |  |  | 202 |  |  | 155 |
Expected return on plan assets | (72) |  |  | (100) |  |  | (215) |  |  | (302) |
Recognition of prior service credit | (2) |  |  | (3) |  |  | (5) |  |  | (8) |
Recognition of actuarial loss | 27 |  |  | 32 |  |  | 78 |  |  | 99 |
Net periodic pension expense (income) | $ | 27 |  |  | (7) |  |  | 79 |  |  | (22) |
______________________________________________________________________ (1)These amounts include pension costs related to the Lumen Pension Plan prior to the sale of the ILEC business on October 3, 2022. For additional information on the Lumen Pension Plan, see Note 11—Employee Benefits to the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes in Part II, Item 8 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022. Net periodic benefit expense for our post-retirement benefit plans includes the following components:
| Post-Retirement Benefit Plans
| Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
| 2023 |  | 2022 |  | 2023 |  | 2022
| (Dollars in millions)
Service cost | $ | 1 |  |  | 3 |  |  | 4 |  |  | 8 |
Interest cost | 26 |  |  | 15 |  |  | 77 |  |  | 45 |
Recognition of prior service (credit) cost | (2) |  |  | 1 |  |  | (6) |  |  | 5 |
Recognition of actuarial gain | (5) |  |  | — |  |  | (15) |  |  | — |
Net periodic post-retirement benefit expense | $ | 20 |  |  | 19 |  |  | 60 |  |  | 58 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the components of net benefit costs for pension plans and/or other employee benefit plans including service cost, interest cost, expected return on plan assets, gain (loss), prior service cost or credit, transition asset or obligation, and gain (loss) recognized due to settlements or curtailments. + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Topic 715 -SubTopic 20 -Subparagraph (h) -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Paragraph 1 -Section 50 -Publisher FASB -URI https://asc.fasb.org//1943274/2147480506/715-20-50-1 + Details
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