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Employee Benefit Plans | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2015
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 Part II, Item 8 “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data–Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements–Employee Benefit Plans” in its 2014 Annual Report on Form 10-K. A summary of the components of net periodic benefit (credit)/cost for Mattel’s defined benefit pension plans is as follows:
|  | For the Three Months Ended |  |  | For the Six Months Ended |
|  | June 30, 2015 |  |  | June 30, 2014 |  |  | June 30, 2015 |  |  | June 30, 2014 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Service cost |  | $ | 2,186 |  |  | $ | 2,715 |  |  | $ | 4,364 |  |  | $ | 5,312 |
Interest cost |  |  | 6,260 |  |  |  | 6,978 |  |  |  | 12,532 |  |  |  | 13,919 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (7,640 | ) |  |  | (8,020 | ) |  |  | (15,273 | ) |  |  | (16,023 | )
Amortization of prior service credit |  |  | (264 | ) |  |  | (264 | ) |  |  | (528 | ) |  |  | (528 | )
Recognized actuarial loss |  |  | 4,889 |  |  |  | 3,589 |  |  |  | 9,781 |  |  |  | 7,176 |
Curtailment gain |  |  | (8,639 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | (8,639 | ) |  |  | — |
|  | $ | (3,208 | ) |  | $ | 4,998 |  |  | $ | 2,237 |  |  | $ | 9,856 |
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, 2015 |  |  | June 30, 2014 |  |  | June 30, 2015 |  |  | June 30, 2014 |
|  | (In thousands) |
Service cost |  | $ | 21 |  |  | $ | 20 |  |  | $ | 42 |  |  | $ | 40 |
Interest cost |  |  | 313 |  |  |  | 452 |  |  |  | 626 |  |  |  | 904 |
Recognized actuarial loss |  |  | 38 |  |  |  | 75 |  |  |  | 77 |  |  |  | 150 |
|  | $ | 372 |  |  | $ | 547 |  |  | $ | 745 |  |  | $ | 1,094 |
During the six months ended June 30, 2015, Mattel made cash contributions totaling approximately $8 million and $1 million related to its defined benefit pension and postretirement benefit plans, respectively. During 2015, Mattel expects to make additional cash contributions of approximately $28 million, including approximately $22 million of expected lump sum benefit payments for its unfunded plans.

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