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Loans Receivable - Loans Impaired, Loan Commitments and Loans Serviced (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2016	Sep. 30, 2015
Receivables [Abstract]
Recorded investment in impaired loans	$ 285,243	$ 341,579
TDRs included in impaired loans	261,531	302,713
Allocated reserves on impaired loans	1,980	2,323
Specific reserves on impaired loans	366	275
Average balance of impaired loans for year ended	265,771	333,815
Interest income from impaired loans for year ended	11,314	14,855
Outstanding fixed-rate origination commitments	331,947	230,869
Gross loans serviced for others	$ 80,896	$ 72,083

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- Definition

Amount of valuation allowance for financing receivables that are expected to be uncollectible that were individually evaluated for impairment.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 11B
-Subparagraph (g)
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Reflects the amount of the write-down related to a troubled debt restructuring.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
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-Section 50
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Amount of interest income recognized that the financing receivables (with related allowance for credit losses and without a related allowance for credit losses) were impaired.

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Allocated Reserves on Impaired Loans

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Loans and Leases Receivable, Loan Origination Commitments Outstanding

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Loans Serviced for Others

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