Company: PPT
Filing Date: 2025-09-26
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001133228-25-010195
Chunk: 128

Company: PUTNAM PREMIER INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-09-26
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 128
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.5

billion

of

average

net

assets

and

0.420%

of

any

excess

thereafter.

#### 3.

#### Transactions

#### with

#### Affiliates
(continued)

Putnam

Premier

Income

Trust

Notes

to

### Financial
Statements

49

franklintempleton.com

Annual

Report

#### c.

#### Transfer

#### Agent

#### Fees
PSERV,

an

affiliate

of Advisers,

provides

investor

servicing

agent

functions

to

the

Fund.

PSERV

was

paid

a

monthly

fee

for

investor

servicing

at

an

annual

rate

of

0.05%

of

the

Fund’s

average

daily

net

assets.

The

amounts

incurred

for

investor

servicing

agent

functions

during

the

reporting

period

are

included

in Transfer

agent fees

in

the

Statement

of

Operations.

#### d.

#### Trustee

#### Fees
The

Fund

has

adopted

a

Trustee

Fee

Deferral

Plan

(the

Deferral

Plan)

which

allows

the

Trustees,

who

were

serving

prior

to

April

25,

2025, to

defer

the

receipt

of

all

or

a

portion

of

Trustees'

fees

payable

from

July

1,

1995

through

December

31,

2023.

The

deferred

fees

remain

invested

in

certain

Putnam

funds

until

distribution

in

accordance

with

the

Deferral

Plan.

The

Fund

has

adopted

an

unfunded

noncontributory

defined

benefit

pension

plan

(the

Pension

Plan)

covering

all

Trustees

of

the

Fund,

who

were

serving

prior

to

April

25,

2025

and

who

have

served

as

a

Trustee

for

at

least

five

years

and

were

first

elected

prior

to

2004.

Benefits

under

the

Pension

Plan

are

equal

to

50%

of

the

Trustee's