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Employee Benefit Plans | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 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 Nine Months Ended |
|  | September 30, 2014 |  |  | September 30, 2013 |  |  | September 30, 2014 |  |  | September 30, 2013 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Service cost |  | $ | 2,120 |  |  | $ | 2,835 |  |  | $ | 7,432 |  |  | $ | 10,523 |
Interest cost |  |  | 6,747 |  |  |  | 6,150 |  |  |  | 20,666 |  |  |  | 19,415 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (7,826 | ) |  |  | (7,630 | ) |  |  | (23,849 | ) |  |  | (22,288 | )
Amortization of prior service credit |  |  | (264 | ) |  |  | (541 | ) |  |  | (792 | ) |  |  | (793 | )
Recognized actuarial loss |  |  | 3,600 |  |  |  | 4,053 |  |  |  | 10,776 |  |  |  | 14,265 |
Settlement loss |  |  | — |  |  |  | 1,835 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 1,835 |
|  | $ | 4,377 |  |  | $ | 6,702 |  |  | $ | 14,233 |  |  | $ | 22,957 |
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 Nine Months Ended |
|  | September 30, 2014 |  |  | September 30, 2013 |  |  | September 30, 2014 |  |  | September 30, 2013 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Service cost |  | $ | 11 |  |  | $ | 17 |  |  | $ | 51 |  |  | $ | 61 |
Interest cost |  |  | 129 |  |  |  | 512 |  |  |  | 1,033 |  |  |  | 1,188 |
Recognized actuarial (gain) loss |  |  | (138 | ) |  |  | 353 |  |  |  | 12 |  |  |  | 433 |
|  | $ | 2 |  |  | $ | 882 |  |  | $ | 1,096 |  |  | $ | 1,682 |
During the nine months ended September 30, 2014, Mattel made cash contributions totaling approximately $12 million and $2 million to its defined benefit pension and postretirement benefit plans, respectively.

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