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Employee Benefit Plans | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2014
Employee Benefit Plans |
15. | Employee Benefit Plans
Mattel and certain of its subsidiaries have qualified and nonqualified retirement plans covering substantially all employees of these companies, which are more fully described in “Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements–Employee Benefit Plans” in its 2013 Annual Report on Form 10-K. A summary of the components of net periodic benefit cost for Mattel’s defined benefit pension plans is as follows:
|  | For the Three Months Ended |  |  | For the Six Months Ended |
|  | June 30, 2014 |  |  | June 30, 2013 |  |  | June 30, 2014 |  |  | June 30, 2013 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Service cost |  | $ | 2,715 |  |  | $ | 3,789 |  |  | $ | 5,312 |  |  | $ | 7,688 |
Interest cost |  |  | 6,978 |  |  |  | 6,635 |  |  |  | 13,919 |  |  |  | 13,265 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (8,020 | ) |  |  | (7,329 | ) |  |  | (16,023 | ) |  |  | (14,658 | )
Amortization of prior service credit |  |  | (264 | ) |  |  | (126 | ) |  |  | (528 | ) |  |  | (252 | )
Recognized actuarial loss |  |  | 3,589 |  |  |  | 5,106 |  |  |  | 7,176 |  |  |  | 10,212 |
|  | $ | 4,998 |  |  | $ | 8,075 |  |  | $ | 9,856 |  |  | $ | 16,255 |
A summary of the components of net periodic benefit cost for Mattel’s postretirement benefit plans is as follows: |
|  | For the Three Months Ended |  |  | For the Six Months Ended |
|  | June 30, 2014 |  |  | June 30, 2013 |  |  | June 30, 2014 |  |  | June 30, 2013 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Service cost |  | $ | 20 |  |  | $ | 22 |  |  | $ | 40 |  |  | $ | 44 |
Interest cost |  |  | 452 |  |  |  | 338 |  |  |  | 904 |  |  |  | 676 |
Recognized actuarial loss |  |  | 75 |  |  |  | 40 |  |  |  | 150 |  |  |  | 80 |
|  | $ | 547 |  |  | $ | 400 |  |  | $ | 1,094 |  |  | $ | 800 |
During the six months ended June 30, 2014, Mattel made cash contributions totaling approximately $7 million and $1 million to its defined benefit pension and postretirement benefit plans, respectively.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for pension and other postretirement benefits. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 715 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2235017 + Details
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