Eaton Vance Dividend Income Fund Declares Monthly Distribution, Plans to Accelerate January Distribution and Announces an Adjustment in Future Monthly Distributions Loan.

It is anticipated that the Fund will accelerate the notice and pay of its January 2009 monthly arrangement to escape being matter to 2008 federal excise taxes. It is anticipated that this ordering will be paid at the beginning of January. In February 2009, the Fund expects to carry on its traditional monthly assertion and payment schedule.

Beginning with the February 2009 distribution, the Fund's monthly allotment be worthy of is expected to be reduced by approximately 30%. The expected calibration in the Fund's monthly grouping measure on the whole reflects anticipated reductions in the aggregate of dividend revenue the Fund expects to collect due to the striking of the unbroken fiscal crisis on corporate dividend rates and increased costs of implementing the Fund's dividend collar trading strategy. Since its inception tryst in 2003, the Fund has increased its monthly allocation proportion three times and made one determined distribution.

The bulk of monthly dividends may reshape depending on a include of factors. As portfolio and bazaar conditions change, the deserve of distributions paid by the Fund could change. The conclusive resolution of tax characteristics of the Fund's distributions will not come to pass until after the end of the year, at which measure it will be reported to shareholders.

The Fund is managed by Eaton Vance Management, a subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp., which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the logotype EV. Eaton Vance and its affiliates had approximately $123.1 billion in assets under superintendence on October 31, 2008.

Eaton Vance Management will transform obtainable occasional abridgement dirt concerning portfolio investments. Those biased should label Eaton Vance at (800) 262-1122. Before investing, pending investors should make allowance for carefully a fund's investment objective(s), risks, and charges and expenses. A fund's prevailing conspectus contains this and other tidings and is to hand through your financial advisor.

Mutual finance shares are not insured by the FDIC and are not deposits or other obligations of, or guaranteed by, any depository institution. Shares are discipline to investment risks, including chance of sacrifice of headmistress invested. Past gig is no promise of future results.

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