Company: PPT
Filing Date: 2025-09-26
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001133228-25-010195
Chunk: 248

Company: PUTNAM PREMIER INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-09-26
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 248
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2024, allowed the fund to repurchase up to 9,643,172 of its shares. The program renewed by the Board in September 2024, which is in effect between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025, allows the fund to repurchase up to 9,559,802 of its shares.

**Information prior to October 1, 2024, is based on the total number of shares eligible for repurchase under the program, as amended through September 2023. Information from October 1, 2024 forward is based on the total number of shares eligible for repurchase under the program, as amended through September 2024.

| ITEM 15. | SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS. |

There have been no changes to the procedures by which shareholders
may recommend nominees to the Registrant’s Board of Trustees that would require disclosure herein.

| ITEM 16. | CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES. |

| (a) | The Registrant’s chief executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that the Registrant’s disclosure controls             
 and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a- 3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”)) are effective             
 as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report that includes the disclosure required by this paragraph, based on their         
 evaluation of the disclosure controls and procedures required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the 1940 Act and 15d-15(b) under the Securities Exchange 
 Act of 1934.                                                                                                                                  |

| (b) | During the period covered by this report, the Registrant transitioned to a new third-party service provider who performs certain accounting 
 and administrative services for the Registrant that are subject to Franklin Templeton’s oversight.                                          |

| ITEM 17. | DISCLOSURE OF SECURITIES LENDING ACTIVITIES FOR CLOSED-END MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY. |

Not applicable.

| ITEM 18. | RECOVERY OF ERRONEOUSLY AWARDED COMPENSATION. |

| (a) | Not applicable. |

| (b) | Not applicable. |

| ITEM 19. | EXHIBITS. |

(a) (1) Code of Ethics attached hereto.

Exhibit 99.CODE ETH

(a) (3) Certifications pursuant to section 302 of the Sarbanes-Ox