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10. Employee Benefits | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
Employee Benefits |
Employee Benefits | On March 8, 2002 we acquired MFN Financial Corporation and its subsidiaries in a merger. We sponsor the MFN Financial Corporation Benefit Plan (the “Plan”). Plan benefits were frozen June 30, 2001. The table below sets forth the Plan’s net periodic benefit cost for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2013 and 2012.
|  | Three Months Ended |  |  | Nine Months Ended |
|  | September 30, |  |  | September 30, |
|  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |  |  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |
|  | (In thousands) |  |  | (In thousands) |
Components of net periodic cost (benefit) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Service cost |  | $ | – |  |  | $ | – |  |  | $ | – |  |  | $ | – |
Interest cost |  |  | 210 |  |  |  | 220 |  |  |  | 630 |  |  |  | 660 |
Expected return on assets |  |  | (335 | ) |  |  | (234 | ) |  |  | (1,005 | ) |  |  | (702 | )
Amortization of transition (asset)/obligation |  |  | – |  |  |  | – |  |  |  | – |  |  |  | – |
Amortization of net (gain) / loss |  |  | 117 |  |  |  | 157 |  |  |  | 351 |  |  |  | 471 |
Net periodic cost (benefit) |  | $ | (8 | ) |  | $ | 143 |  |  | $ | (24 | ) |  | $ | 429 |
We contributed $112,000 and $277,000 to the Plan during the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2013 and we anticipate making contributions in the amount of $112,000 for the remainder of 2013.

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