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Report of Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors of
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund:

We have examined management's assertion, included in the
accompanying Management Statement Regarding Compliance With
Certain Provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, that BNY
Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund (the "Fund"), the sole series of BNY
Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund, complied with the requirements of
subsections (b) and (c) of Rule 17f-2 under the Investment Company Act
of 1940 (the Act) as of March 31, 2022. Management is responsible for
its assertion about the Fund's compliance with those requirements of
subsections (b) and (c) of Rule 17f-2 of the Act (the specified
requirements). Our responsibility is to express an opinion on
management's assertion about the Fund's compliance with the specified
requirements based on our examination.

Our examination was conducted in accordance with attestation
standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants. Those standards require that we plan and perform the
examination to obtain reasonable assurance about whether
management's assertion about compliance with the specified
requirements is fairly stated, in all material respects. An examination
involves performing procedures to obtain evidence about whether
management's assertion is fairly stated in all material respects. The
nature, timing, and extent of the procedures selected depend on our
judgement, including an assessment of the risks of material
misstatement of management's assertion, whether due to fraud or error.
We believe that the evidence we obtained is sufficient and appropriate
to provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Included among our procedures were the following tests performed as
of March 31, 2022, and with respect to agreement of security
purchases and sales, for the period from September 30, 2021 (the date
of the Fund's last examination) through March 31, 2022,

1.	Count and inspection of all securities located in the vault of The
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation in 570 Washington Blvd,
Jersey City, NJ 07310 or where inspection could not be performed,
application of alternative procedures;

2.	Confirmation with the Custodian of all securities held, hypothecated,
pledged or placed in escrow or out for transfer with brokers or
pledgees, if any;

3.	Obtained the Custodian reconciliation of security positions held by
institutions in book entry form (e.g., the Federal Reserve Bank, The
Depository Trust Company and various sub-custodians) to Custodian
records and verified that reconciling items were cleared in a timely
manner;

4.	Reconciliation of the Fund's securities per the books and records of the
Fund to those of the Custodian;

5.	Agreement of pending purchase and sale activity for the Fund
as of March 31, 2022, if any, to documentation of
corresponding subsequent bank statements;

6.	Agreement of five security purchases and five security sales or
maturities, since the date of the last examination, from the
books and records of the Fund to corresponding bank
statements;

7.	Confirmation of all repurchase agreements with broker(s)/bank(s)
and/or agreement of corresponding subsequent cash receipts to
bank statements and agreement of underlying collateral with the
Custodian records, if any;

8.	Review of the BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Custody and Securities
Lending Services Service Organization Control Report ("SOC 1
Report") for the period April 1, 2021 - March 31, 2022 and noted no
relevant findings were reported in the areas of Asset Custody and
Trade Settlement.

We believe that our examination provides a reasonable basis for our
opinion. Our examination does not provide a legal determination on the
Fund's compliance with specified requirements.

In our opinion, management's assertion that the Fund complied with the
requirements of subsections (b) and
(c) of Rule 17f-2 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 as of March 31,
2022, with respect to securities reflected in the investment accounts of
the Fund is fairly stated, in all material respects.

This report is intended solely for the information and use of management
and The Board of Directors 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.



      /s/ KPMG LLP

New York, New
York July 20, 2022
















July 20, 2022


  Management Statement Regarding Compliance
With Certain Provisions of the Investment Company
Act of 1940


We, as members of management of BNY Mellon High Yield
Strategies Fund (the "Fund"), the sole series of BNY Mellon
High Yield Strategies Fund, are responsible for complying with
the requirements of subsections (b) and (c) of Rule 17f-2,
"Custody of Investments by Registered Management
Investment Companies" of the Investment Company Act of
1940. We are also responsible for establishing and maintaining
effective internal controls over compliance with those
requirements. We have performed an
evaluation of the Fund's compliance with the requirements of
subsections (b) and (c) of Rule 17f-2 as of March 31, 2022, as
well as for the period for the period from September 30, 2021
(the date of the Fund's last examination) through March 31,
2022.

Based on the evaluation, we assert that the Fund was in
compliance with the requirements of subsections (b) and (c) of
Rule 17f-2 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 as of March
31, 2022, as well as for the period from September 30, 2021 (the
date of the Fund's last examination) through March 31, 2022 with
respect to securities reflected in the investment accounts of the
Fund.


BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund


Jim Windels
Treasurer




























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