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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			BNY MELLON HIGH YIELD STRATEGIES FUND
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001057861
		IRS NUMBER:				134001109
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MA
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0331

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		SEC ACT:		1940 Act
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		FILM NUMBER:		21992848

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O BNY MELLON INVESTMENT ADVISER, INC.
		STREET 2:		240 GREENWICH STREET
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10286
		BUSINESS PHONE:		2129226400

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O BNY MELLON INVESTMENT ADVISER, INC.
		STREET 2:		240 GREENWICH STREET
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10286

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	DREYFUS HIGH YIELD STRATEGIES FUND
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19980316
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">KPMG</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 8pt/9.55pt Univers 45 Light, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 5.05pt 0 0 144.8pt; color: #231F20">KPMG LLP</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 8pt/9.55pt Univers 45 Light, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 0 0 144.8pt; color: #231F20">New York, NY 10154-0102</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 4.65pt 112.6pt 0 113.2pt; text-align: center"><B>Report of Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/103% Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 7.9pt 240.4pt 0 5.75pt">To the Shareholders of the Fund and Board
of Trustees of BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/103% Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 13.9pt 0 5.8pt">In planning and performing our audit of the financial
statements of BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund (the &#8220;Fund&#8221;), as of and for the year ended March 31, 2021, in accordance
with the standards of the Public</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/103% Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0.1pt 5.9pt 0 5.75pt">Company Accounting Oversight Board (United
States)(PCAOB), we considered the Fund&#8217;s internal control over financial reporting, including controls over safeguarding
securities, as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements
and to comply with the requirements of Form N-CEN, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the
Fund&#8217;s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/103% Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 5.65pt 0 5.75pt">Management of the Fund is responsible for establishing
and maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments
by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of controls. A fund&#8217;s internal control over
financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and
the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
A fund&#8217;s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance
of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the fund;
(2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance
with GAAP, and that receipts and expenditures of the fund are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and
trustees of the fund; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition,
use, or disposition of a fund&#8217;s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/103% Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 0 0 5.75pt">Because of its inherent limitations, internal control
over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future
periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance
with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/103% Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 6.95pt 0 5.75pt">A deficiency in internal control over financial
reporting exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing
their assigned functions, to prevent or detect misstatements on a timely basis. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination
of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement
of the Fund&#8217;s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/103% Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 5.3pt 0 5.75pt">Our consideration of the Fund&#8217;s internal
control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in the first paragraph and would not necessarily disclose
all deficiencies in internal control that might be material weaknesses under standards established by the PCAOB. However, we noted
no deficiencies in the Fund&#8217;s internal control over financial reporting and its operation, including controls over safeguarding
securities that we consider to be a material weakness as defined above as of March 31, 2021.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 5.5pt/97% Univers 45 Light, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 5.1pt 176.65pt 0 144.8pt; color: #939598">KPMG LLP,
a Delaware limited liability partnership and a member firm of the KPMG global organization of independent member firms affiliated
with KPMG International Limited, a private English company limited by guarantee.</P>


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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/103% Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 4.65pt 0 0 5.75pt">This report is intended solely for the information
and use of management and the Board of Trustees of BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund and the Securities and Exchange Commission
and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than these specified parties.</P>

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