CONSUMERS ENERGY CO
For the period ended Mar 31, 2024. Filed Apr 25, 2024.
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Mar 31, 2024 · Filed Apr 25, 2024
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6: Retirement Benefits
CMS Energy and Consumers provide pension, OPEB, and other retirement benefits to employees under a number of different plans.
Costs: Presented in the following table are the costs (credits) and other changes in plan assets and benefit obligations incurred in CMS Energy’s and Consumers’ retirement benefit plans:
| In Millions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DB Pension Plans | OPEB Plan | |||
| Three Months Ended March 31 | 2024 | 2023 | 2024 | 2023 |
| CMS Energy, including Consumers | ||||
| Net periodic credit | ||||
| Service cost | $7 | $7 | $3 | $3 |
| Interest cost | 26 | 27 | 11 | 11 |
| Expected return on plan assets | (59) | (55) | (29) | (26) |
| Amortization of: | ||||
| Net loss | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Prior service cost (credit) | 1 | 1 | (8) | (10) |
| Settlement loss | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| Net periodic credit | $(19) | $(15) | $(22) | $(19) |
| Consumers | ||||
| Net periodic credit | ||||
| Service cost | $7 | $7 | $3 | $3 |
| Interest cost | 24 | 25 | 10 | 11 |
| Expected return on plan assets | (55) | (52) | (27) | (24) |
| Amortization of: | ||||
| Net loss | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Prior service cost (credit) | 1 | 1 | (7) | (10) |
| Settlement loss | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| Net periodic credit | $(17) | $(14) | $(20) | $(17) |
In Consumers’ electric and gas rate cases, the MPSC approved a mechanism allowing Consumers to defer the future recovery or refund of pension and OPEB expenses above or below the amounts used to set existing rates. The regulatory deferral will be collected from or refunded to customers over ten years. At March 31, 2024, CMS Energy, including Consumers, had deferred $5 million of pension credits and less than $1 million of OPEB costs under this mechanism related to 2024 expense.
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