Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000065984-25-000012
Chunk: 616

Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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 for each Registrant Subsidiary at the beginning of the quarter adjusted for contributions and benefit payments made during the quarter.Entergy Corporation and its subsidiaries fund pension plans in an amount not less than the minimum required contribution under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.  The assets of the plans include common and preferred stocks, fixed-income securities, interest in a money market fund, and insurance contracts.  The Registrant Subsidiaries’ pension costs are recovered from customers as a component of cost of service in each of their respective jurisdictions.Components of Qualified Net Pension Cost and Other Amounts Recognized as a Regulatory Asset and/or Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (AOCI)Entergy Corporation and its subsidiaries’ total 2024, 2023, and 2022 qualified pension costs and amounts recognized as a regulatory asset and/or other comprehensive income, including amounts capitalized, included the following components: 202420232022 (In Thousands)Net periodic pension cost:   Service cost - benefits earned during the period$93,468 $101,182 $138,085 Interest cost on projected benefit obligation249,757 298,281 235,805 Expected return on assets(338,619)(388,030)(402,504)Recognized net loss58,590 81,919 188,683 Settlement charges328,277 160,387 230,389 Net pension cost$391,473 $253,739 $390,458 Other changes in plan assets and benefit obligations recognized as a regulatory asset and/or AOCI (before tax)   Arising this period:   Net (gain) loss($101,445)($213,636)$6,113 Amounts reclassified from regulatory asset and/or AOCI to net periodic pension cost in the current year:   Amortization of net loss(58,590)(81,919)(188,683)Settlement charges(328,277)(160,387)(230,389)Total($488,312)($455,942)($412,959)Total recognized as net periodic pension cost, regulatory asset, and/or AOCI (before tax)($96,839)($202,203)($22,501)

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Table of ContentsEntergy Corporation and SubsidiariesNotes to Financial Statements

The Registrant Subsidiaries’ total 2024,