Company: WIA
Filing Date: 2025-01-28
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001133228-25-000566
Chunk: 37

Company: WESTERN ASSET INFLATION-LINKED INCOME FUND
Filing Date: 2025-01-28
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 37
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4 (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of November 30, 2024, the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period ended November 30, 2024 and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period ended November 30, 2024 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Basis for Opinion These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB. We conducted our audits of these consolidated financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of November 30, 2024 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. /s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Baltimore, Maryland
January 23, 2025 We have served as the auditor of one or more investment companies in the Franklin Templeton Group of Funds since 1948.

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Additional information (unaudited) Information about Trustees and Officers

The business and affairs of Western Asset Inflation-Linked Income Fund (the “Fund”) are conducted by management under the supervision and subject to the direction of its Board of Trustees. The business address of each Trustee is c