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Independent Accountants Report

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

We have examined management of BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies
Funds 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)
(the specified requirements) as of February 28, 2025. BNY Mellon High
Yield Strategies Funds management is responsible for its assertion.
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on managements assertion
about the Funds 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
managements assertion about compliance with the specified
requirements is fairly stated, in all material respects. An examination
involves performing procedures to obtain evidence about whether
managements assertion is fairly stated, in all material respects. The
nature, timing, and extent of the procedures selected depend on our
judgment, including an assessment of the risks of material misstatement
of managements 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.

We are required to be independent and to meet our other ethical
responsibilities in accordance with relevant ethical requirements
relating to the engagement.

Included among our procedures were the following tests performed
as of February 28, 2025, and with respect to agreement of security
purchases and sales or maturities, for the period from June 30, 2024
(the date of the Funds last examination), through February 28,
2025:

1.	Count and inspection of all securities (if any) located in the vault
of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation in 570 Washington Blvd, Jersey
City, NJ 07310;

2.	Confirmation with the Custodian of all securities held, hypothecated,
pledged or placed in escrow or out for transfer with brokers, pledgees,
or transfer agents, 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 Funds 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 February 28, 2025, 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, 2024 March 31, 2025 and noted no
relevant findings were reported in the areas of Asset Custody and Trade
Settlement.

Our examination does not provide a legal determination on the Funds
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 February 28, 2025, with respect to securities
reflected in the investment account 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 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.

New York, New York
December 23, 2025


December 23, 2025

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 Funds
compliance with the requirements of subsections (b) and (c) of Rule
17f-2 as of February 28, 2025, and from June 30, 2024 (the date of the
Funds last examination) through February 28, 2025.

Based on this 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 February 28, 2025, and from
June 30, 2024 (the date of the Funds last examination) through
February 28, 2025, with respect to securities reflected in the investment
account of the Fund.


BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund



Jim Windels
Treasurer
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