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Employee Benefit Plans | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 30, 2014
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract] |
Employee Benefit Plans | Employee Benefit Plans The Company has a defined benefit pension plan and postretirement healthcare benefit plans that cover certain employees of the Motorcycles segment. The Company also has unfunded supplemental employee retirement plan agreements (SERPA) with certain employees which were instituted to replace benefits lost under the Tax Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993. Net periodic benefit costs are allocated among selling, administrative and engineering expense, cost of goods sold and inventory. Amounts capitalized in inventory are not significant. Components of net periodic benefit costs were as follows (in thousands):
| Three months ended
| March 30, 2014 |  | March 31, 2013
Pension and SERPA Benefits |  |  |
Service cost | $ | 7,874 |  |  | $ | 8,997 |
Interest cost | 21,731 |  |  | 19,812 |
Expected return on plan assets | (34,184 | ) |  | (31,832 | )
Amortization of unrecognized: |  |  |
Prior service cost | 279 |  |  | 437 |
Net loss | 9,140 |  |  | 14,652 |
Net periodic benefit cost | $ | 4,840 |  |  | $ | 12,066 |
Postretirement Healthcare Benefits |  |  |
Service cost | $ | 1,754 |  |  | $ | 1,965 |
Interest cost | 4,220 |  |  | 3,900 |
Expected return on plan assets | (2,607 | ) |  | (2,384 | )
Amortization of unrecognized: |  |  |
Prior service credit | (963 | ) |  | (964 | )
Net loss | 1,182 |  |  | 2,138 |
Net periodic benefit cost | $ | 3,586 |  |  | $ | 4,655 |
During the first three months of 2013, the Company voluntarily contributed $175 million in cash to further fund its pension plans. No pension contributions to qualified plans are required in 2014. The Company expects it will continue to make on-going contributions related to current benefit payments for SERPA and postretirement healthcare plans.

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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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