<br /> Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund Announces Distribution and Discloses Sources of Distribution – Section 19(a) Notice<br />

Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund Announces Distribution and Discloses Sources of Distribution – Section 19(a) Notice

PR Newswire

HARTFORD, Conn.

,

Sept. 8, 2022

/PRNewswire/ —

Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund

(NYSE: NFJ), today announced the following quarterly distribution:

Ticker	Amount of Distribution	Ex-Date	Record Date	Payable Date
NFJ	$0.245	December 9, 2022	December 12, 2022	December 23, 2022

The Fund previously announced the following quarterly distribution on

June 7, 2022

:

Ticker	Amount of Distribution	Ex-Date	Record Date	Payable Date
NFJ	$0.245	September 9, 2022	September 12, 2022	September 23, 2022

Under the terms of its Managed Distribution Plan, the Fund will seek to maintain a consistent distribution level that may be paid, in part or in full, from net investment income and realized capital gains, or a combination thereof. Shareholders should note, however, that if the Fund’s aggregate net investment income and net realized capital gains are less than the amount of the distribution level, the difference will be distributed from the Fund’s assets and will constitute a return of the shareholder’s capital. You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund’s investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund’s Managed Distribution Plan.

The Fund provided this estimate of the sources of the distributions:

Distribution Estimates	September 2022 (QTD)		Fiscal Year-to-Date (YTD) ⁽¹⁾
(Sources)	Per Share Amount	Percentage of Current Distribution	Per Share Amount	Percentage of Current Distribution
Net Investment Income	$ –	0.0 %	$ 0.013	1.8 %
Net Realized Short-Term Capital Gains	$ –	0.0 %	$ 0.364	49.5 %
Net Realized Long-Term Capital Gains	$ 0.245	100.0 %	$ 0.358	48.7 %
Return of Capital (or other Capital Source)	$ –	0.00 %	$ –	0.00 %
Total Distribution	$ 0.245	100.0 %	$ 0.735	100.0 %

(1)	Fiscal year started February 1, 2022

Information regarding the Fund’s performance and distribution rates is set forth below. Please note that all performance figures are based on the Fund’s NAV and not the market price of the Fund’s shares. Performance figures are not meant to represent individual shareholder performance.

August 31, 2022
Average Annual Total Return on NAV for the 5-year period ⁽²⁾		5.74 %
Current Fiscal YTD Annualized Distribution Rate ⁽³⁾		7.07 %
Fiscal YTD Cumulative Total Return on NAV ⁽⁴⁾		-12.11 %
Fiscal YTD Cumulative Distribution Rate ⁽⁵⁾		5.30 %

(2)	Average Annual Total Return on NAV is the annual compound return for the five-year period. It reflects the change in the Fund’s NAV and reinvestment of all distributions.
(3)	Current Fiscal YTD Annualized Distribution Rate is the current distribution rate annualized as a percentage of the Fund’s NAV at month end.
(4)	Fiscal YTD Cumulative Total Return on NAV is the percentage change in the Fund’s NAV from the first day of the fiscal year to this month end, including distributions paid and assuming reinvestment of those distributions.
(5)	Fiscal YTD Cumulative Distribution Rate is the dollar value of distributions expected to be paid from the first day of the fiscal year through the next calendar quarter end as a percentage of the Fund’s NAV at month end.

The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this notice are estimates only and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the distributions for tax purposes will depend on the Fund’s investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund or your broker will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you what distributions to report for federal income tax purposes.

About the Fund

Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund

is a diversified closed-end fund that seeks current income and gains, with long-term capital appreciation as a secondary objective. The Fund will generally invest approximately 75% of its total assets in equity securities and approximately 25% in convertible securities. The Fund will employ an option strategy of writing (selling) covered call options on equity securities held in the Fund. Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. is the investment adviser to the Fund, and

NFJ Investment Group

and

Voya Investment Management

are its subadvisers.

For more information on the Fund, contact shareholder services at (866) 270-7788, by email at

[email protected]

, or through the

Closed-End Funds

section of

virtus.com

.

Fund Risks

An investment in a fund is subject to risk, including the risk of possible loss of principal. A fund’s shares may be worth less upon their sale than what an investor paid for them. Shares of closed-end funds may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value. For more information about the Fund’s investment objective and risks, please see the Fund’s annual report. A copy of the Fund’s most recent annual report may be obtained free of charge by contacting “Shareholder Services” as set forth at the end of this press release.