# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000855886
**File Stem:** 0001133228-23-001648
**Filing Date:** 2023-3
**Character Count:** 2512
**Document Hash:** 5a98f24c15417fde13305ccfa863114e
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001133228-23-001648.hdr.sgml**: 20230331

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001133228-23-001648

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 424B3

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 3

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230331

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230330

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** JOHN HANCOCK PREMIUM DIVIDEND FUND
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000855886
- **IRS NUMBER:** 043097281
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** MA
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1031

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 424B3
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-264266
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23782012

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** C/O JOHN HANCOCK FUNDS
- **STREET 2:** 200 BERKELEY STREET
- **CITY:** BOSTON
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02116
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 617-663-3000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** C/O JOHN HANCOCK FUNDS
- **STREET 2:** 200 BERKELEY STREET
- **CITY:** BOSTON
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02116

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** HANCOCK JOHN PATRIOT PREMIUM DIVIDEND FUND II
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19990518

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** PATRIOT PREMIUM DIVIDEND FUND II
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19920703

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Prospectus Supplement

**John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (the fund)**

**Supplement dated March 31, 2023 to the current Prospectus, as supplemented (the Prospectus)**

At a meeting held on March 28-30, 2023, the fund's Board of Trustees approved an amendment, dated April 1, 2023 to the liquidity agreement (the "LA") between State Street Bank and Trust Company (State Street) and the fund dated December 2, 2015.

As a result, effective April 1, 2023, (the Effective Date) the reference rate for the LA will be amended to change from a London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)-based rate to the Overnight Bank Funding Rate (OBFR) and the interest charged rate is updated to a rate of one-month OBFR +70 bp. Accordingly, all references to the LA utilizing LIBOR as the reference or benchmark rate are hereby removed from the Prospectus. In addition, as of the Effective Date, the asset coverage ratio will be updated to a minimum of 220% with a two-day cure period.

*You should read this supplement in conjunction with the Prospectus and retain it for your future reference.*

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