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Employee Benefit Obligations Employee Benefit Obligations (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Changes in Projected Benefit Obligations | The following tables provide additional information on the Company’s pension plans as of September 30, 2017 and 2016, which principally relate to Spectrum Brands’ continuing operations:
|  | Fiscal
|  | 2017 |  | 2016
Change in benefit obligation |  |  |  |
Projected benefit obligation, beginning of year |  | $ | 104.9 |  |  | $ | 87.8 |
Service cost |  | 2.9 |  |  | 2.4 |
Interest cost |  | 2.2 |  |  | 2.7 |
Actuarial (gain) loss |  | (12.0 | ) |  | 15.9 |
Curtailments |  | (0.2 | ) |  | — |
Benefits paid |  | (4.7 | ) |  | (3.4 | )
Foreign currency exchange rate changes |  | 4.1 |  |  | (0.5 | )
Projected benefit obligation, end of year |  | $ | 97.2 |  |  | $ | 104.9 |
Change in plan assets |  |  |  |
Fair value of plan assets, beginning of year |  | $ | 57.2 |  |  | $ | 56.1 |
Actual return on plan assets |  | 1.1 |  |  | 1.9 |
Employer contributions |  | 4.8 |  |  | 2.5 |
Benefits paid |  | (4.7 | ) |  | (3.4 | )
Foreign currency exchange rate changes |  | 2.2 |  |  | 0.1 |
Fair value of plan assets, end of year |  | $ | 60.6 |  |  | $ | 57.2 |
Accrued Benefit Cost / Funded Status |  | $ | (36.6 | ) |  | $ | (47.7 | )
Weighted average assumptions: |  |  |  |
Discount rate |  | 1.1% to 7.5% |  | 1.0% to 8.7%
Expected return on plan assets |  | 1.1% to 7.0% |  | 1.0% to 7.0%
Rate of compensation increase |  | 1.4% to 7.0% |  | 2.3% to 7.0%
Schedule of Expected Benefit Payments | The following benefit payments were expected to be paid as of September 30, 2017:
Fiscal Year |  |
2018 |  | $ | 3.4 |
2019 |  | 3.7 |
2020 |  | 3.8 |
2021 |  | 3.9 |
2022 |  | 3.9 |
2023 to 2027 |  | 22.6 |
Schedule of Allocation of Plan Assets | Below is a summary allocation of all pension plan assets as of September 30, 2017 and 2016:
|  | Fiscal
|  | 2017 |  | 2016
Asset Type |  |  |  |
Equity securities |  | 6 | % |  | 14 | %
Fixed income securities |  | 17 | % |  | 13 | %
Other |  | 77 | % |  | 73 | %
Total |  | 100 | % |  | 100 | %
The fair value of pension plan assets by asset category as of September 30, 2017 and 2016 were as follows:
|  | September 30, 2017
|  | Level 1 |  | Level 2 |  | Level 3 |  | Total
Defined Benefit Plan Assets: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Equity securities |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. equity securities |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 2.1 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 2.1 |
Foreign equity securities |  | — |  |  | 1.4 |  |  | — |  |  | 1.4 |
Fixed income securities |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. fixed income securities |  | — |  |  | 8.1 |  |  | — |  |  | 8.1 |
Foreign fixed income securities |  | — |  |  | 2.4 |  |  | — |  |  | 2.4 |
Real estate |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Life insurance contracts |  | — |  |  | 37.6 |  |  | — |  |  | 37.6 |
Other |  | — |  |  | 0.5 |  |  | — |  |  | 0.5 |
Foreign cash & cash equivalents |  | 8.5 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 8.5 |
Total defined benefit plan assets |  | $ | 8.5 |  |  | $ | 52.1 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 60.6 |
|  | September 30, 2016
|  | Level 1 |  | Level 2 |  | Level 3 |  | Total
Defined Benefit Plan Assets: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Equity securities |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. equity securities |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 5.5 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 5.5 |
Foreign equity securities |  | — |  |  | 2.3 |  |  | — |  |  | 2.3 |
Fixed income securities |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. fixed income securities |  | — |  |  | 5.4 |  |  | — |  |  | 5.4 |
Foreign fixed income securities |  | — |  |  | 2.3 |  |  | — |  |  | 2.3 |
Real estate |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Life insurance contracts |  | — |  |  | 34.6 |  |  | — |  |  | 34.6 |
Other |  | — |  |  | 1.1 |  |  | — |  |  | 1.1 |
Foreign cash & cash equivalents |  | 6.0 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 6.0 |
Total defined benefit plan assets |  | $ | 6 |  |  | $ | 51.2 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 57.2 |
Components of Consolidated Net Periodic Benefit and Deferred Compensation Benefit Costs and Contributions Made |
|  | Fiscal
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Components of net periodic cost: |  |  |  |  |  |
Service cost |  | $ | 2.9 |  |  | $ | 2.4 |  |  | $ | 2.4 |
Interest cost |  | 2.2 |  |  | 2.7 |  |  | 2.8 |
Expected return on assets |  | (2.3 | ) |  | (2.3 | ) |  | (2.5 | )
Curtailment gain |  | (0.2 | ) |  | 0.1 |  |  | 0.4 |
Recognized net actuarial loss |  | 2.3 |  |  | 0.6 |  |  | 0.9 |
Net periodic cost |  | $ | 4.9 |  |  | $ | 3.5 |  |  | $ | 4.0 |
Weighted average assumptions: |  |  |  |  |  |
Discount rate |  | 1.0% to 8.7% |  | 1.0% to 7.0% |  | 2.0% to 7.5%
Expected return on plan assets |  | 1.0% to 7.0% |  | 1.0% to 7.0% |  | 2.0% to 7.3%
Rate of compensation increase |  | 2.3% to 7.0% |  | 2.3% to 5.5% |  | 2.3% to 5.5%

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