14. Employees' Severance Payments (Consolidated) 1. Severance Payments and Qualified Pension Plans (1) Benefit obligations (2) Cost for employees' severance indemnities (3) Assumptions in determination of benefit obligations and costs 2. The NTT Kosei-Nenkin-Kikin (Welfare Pension Fund) (1) Benefit obligations (2) Cost for employees' severance indemnities (3) Assumptions in determination of benefit obligations and costs Copyright (c) 2004 Nippon telegraph and telephone corporation