---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001999371-25-006389"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ECF"
cik: "0000793040"
company_name: "ELLSWORTH GROWTH & INCOME FUND LTD"
filed_at: "2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T02:31:19.418957+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ellsworth Fund adds put dates for Series B Preferred Shares in 2026 and 2027

## Summary
- Adopted Amendment No. 2 to Series B Preferred Statement of Preferences on May 14, 2025.
- Adds holder put right to sell shares to Fund during 60-day window before Sept. 26, 2026 and June 26, 2027.
- Only Series B Cumulative Preferred Shares are affected; terms of Common and Series A Preferred unchanged.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001999371-25-006389
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ECF
- cik: 0000793040
- company_name: ELLSWORTH GROWTH & INCOME FUND LTD
- filed_at: 2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/793040/000199937125006389/0001999371-25-006389-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/793040/000199937125006389/ecf-8k_051925.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ELLSWORTH GROWTH & INCOME FUND LTD: Amendment No. 2 to the Statement of Preferences of Series B Cumulative Preferred Shares adds additional holder put dates for the Series B Preferred Shares (effective 2025-05-14).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-14
  source text: On May 14, 2025, Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund Ltd. (the “Fund”) adopted Amendment No. 2 to the Statement of Preferences of Series B Cumulative Preferred Shares (the “Series B Statement of Preferences Amendment”) establishing and fixing the rights and preferences of the Fund’s Series B Cumulative Preferred Shares (the “Series B Preferred Shares”). The Series B Statement of Preferences Amendment adds additional holder put dates, giving holders of Series B Preferred Shares the right to sell to the Fund all or any part of their Series B Preferred Shares during the 60-day period prior to each of September 26, 2026 and June 26, 2027.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/793040/000199937125006389/0001999371-25-006389-index.htm

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