Company: WIA
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-080095
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Company: WESTERN ASSET INFLATION-LINKED INCOME FUND
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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 connection with the solicitation of proxies by the Board, including the services of Computershare, will be borne by the Fund.

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Abstentions and “broker non-votes” (i.e., proxies signed
and returned by brokers with respect to Shares held by brokers or nominees as to which one or more votes is not indicated because (i) instructions have not been received from the beneficial owners or the persons entitled to vote and
(ii) the broker or nominee does not have discretionary voting power on a particular matter) will be counted as Shares present for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present. Assuming that a quorum would otherwise be present,
abstentions will have the effect of a vote against a Nominee for the purpose of determining whether a Trustee has been elected.

The Fund expects
that broker-dealer firms holding shares of the Fund in “street name” for the benefit of their customers and clients will request the instructions of such customers and clients on how to vote their shares on Proposal 1 before the Annual
Meeting. The Fund understands that, under the rules of the New York Stock Exchange, such broker-dealers may, without instructions from such customers and clients, grant authority to the proxies designated by the Fund to vote on Proposal 1 if no
instructions have been received prior to the date specified in the broker-dealer firm’s request for voting instructions. Jane E. Trust, Thomas C. Mandia, Tara E. Gormel, Jeanne Kelly and Marc A. De Oliveira, the persons named as proxies on the
proxy card accompanying this Proxy Statement, were selected by the Board to serve in such capacity or substituted by the persons selected by the Board. Mses. Trust, Gormel and Kelly and Messrs. Mandia and De Oliveira are officers of the Fund. Each
executed and returned proxy will be voted in accordance with the directions indicated thereon or otherwise as provided therein. Other proxies returned, including those that are unexecuted or are determined to be improperly completed, will not be
voted and may be returned to the sender. Discretionary authority is provided in the proxy as to any matters not specifically referred to therein. The Board is not aware of any other matters which are likely to be brought before the Annual Meeting.
However, if any such matters properly come before the Annual Meeting, the persons named in the proxy are fully authorized to vote thereon in accordance with their judgment and discretion.

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