Company: WIA
Filing Date: 2025-01-28
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001133228-25-000566
Chunk: 68

Company: WESTERN ASSET INFLATION-LINKED INCOME FUND
Filing Date: 2025-01-28
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 68
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 procedures. For avoidance
of doubt, depending on the best interest of each individual client, Western Asset may vote the same proxy differently for different clients.
The analyst’s or portfolio manager’s basis for their decision is documented and maintained by the Portfolio Compliance Group.

Portfolio Compliance Group votes the proxy
pursuant to the instructions received in (d) or (e) and returns the voted proxy as indicated in the proxy materials.

Timing

Western Asset’s Legal and Compliance Department
personnel act in such a manner to ensure that, absent special circumstances, the proxy gathering and proxy voting steps noted above can
be completed before the applicable deadline for returning proxy votes.

Recordkeeping

Western Asset maintains records of proxies voted
pursuant to Rule 204-2 of the Advisers Act and ERISA DOL Bulletin 94-2. These records include:

| • | A                                                             
 copy of Western Asset’s proxy voting policies and procedures. |

Copies of proxy statements received with
respect to securities in client accounts.

A copy of any document created by Western
Asset that was material to making a decision how to vote proxies.

Each written client request for proxy
voting records and Western Asset’s written response to both verbal and written client requests.

A proxy log including:

| 1. | Issuer 
 name;  |

| 2. | Exchange                                          
 ticker symbol of the issuer’s shares to be voted; |

| 3. | Committee                                                                       
 on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures (“CUSIP”) number for the shares 
 to be voted;                                                                    |

| 4. | A                                            
 brief identification of the matter voted on; |

| 5. | Whether                                                                  
 the matter was proposed by the issuer or by a shareholder of the issuer; |

| 6. | Whether                        
 a vote was cast on the matter; |

| 7. | A                                
 record of how the vote was cast; |

| 8. | Whether                                                                              
 the vote was cast for or against the recommendation of the issuer’s management team; |

| 9. | Funds                                                                                          
 are required to categorize their votes so that investors can focus on the topics they find     
 important. Categories include, for example, votes related to director elections, extraordinary 
 transactions, say-on-pay, shareholder rights and defenses, and the environment or climate,     
 among others; and                                                                              |

| 10. | Funds                                                                                    
 are required to disclose the number of shares voted or instructed to be cast, as well as 
 the number of shares loaned