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Note 12. Employee Benefit Plans - continued

The following table reconciles the funded status of the plans with the accrued pension liability and the net postretirement benefit liability as of December 31, 2005 and 2004:

 

Pension Benefits

 

Other Benefits

  2005 2004   2005 2004
Change in benefit obligations:          
Beginning of year $87,616 $88,356   $30,870 $22,219
Service cost 4,335 4,608   1,019 1,461
Interest cost 5,511 5,613   1,088 1,560
Assumption change 11,783 (5,992)   (8,364) 3,266
Benefit adjustment 4,086 --   -- --
Medicare Modernization Act -- --   -- (4,360)
Experience (gain) loss 3,426 2,938   (2,106) 8,130
Benefits paid, net of retiree premiums (13,559) (7,907)   (1,030) (1,406)
End of year $103,198 $87,616   $21,477 $30,870)
Change in plan assets:          
Fair value of plan assets at beginning of year $75,064 $63,216   $4,543 $3,697
Actual return on plan assets 4,000 8,298   184 294
Employer contributions 4,720 11,457   1,356 1,958
Retiree contributions -- --   651 649
Benefits paid (13,559) (7,907)   (1,681) (2,055)
Fair value of plan assets at end of year $70,473 $75,064   $5,053 $4,543
Funded status $(32,973) $(12,552)   $(16,424) $(26,327)
Unrecognized actuarial (gain) or loss 13,516 (2,783)   4,053 14,293
Unrecognized prior service cost 17,473 15,383   564 638
Unrecognized transition obligation -- --   2,217 2,493
Unrecognized net initial asset -- --   (276) (276)
Net amount recognized $(1,984) $48   $(9,866) $(9,179)
Amounts recognized on the balance sheet consist of:
  Pension Benefits   Other Benefits
  2005 2004   2005 2004
Accrued benefit costs $(1,984) $48   $(9,866) $(9,179)
Additional minimum liability (6,921) (3,081)   -- --
Intangible asset 5,719 2,380   -- --
Accumulated other comprehensive loss 1,202 701   -- --
Net amount recognized $(1,984) $48   $(9.866) $(9,179)
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