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		ELLSWORTH GROWTH AND INCOME FUND LTD.

			One Corporate Center Rye, NY 10580-1422 t 914.921.5070 GABELLI.COM

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Rye, New York		NYSE MKT – ECF
June 7, 2017		CUSIP – 289074106

Rye, NY -- Ellsworth Growth & Income Fund Ltd. (NYSE MKT:ECF) (the “Fund”) announced June 6, 2017 that its 2017 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Meeting”) was adjourned and will be continued on June 12, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. at Gabelli Funds, LLC, One Corporate Center, Rye, NY, 10580. The record date for the Meeting remains March 23, 2017. Proxies properly submitted between June 6, 2017 and the closing of the polls at the Meeting, together with all proxies and ballots previously submitted on or before June 12, 2017, will be presented at the Meeting unless properly revoked.

Ellsworth Growth & Income Fund Ltd. is a diversified, closed-end management investment company with $130 million in total net assets as of June 6, 2017, whose investment objectives are to provide income and the potential for capital appreciation, which objectives the Fund considers to be relatively equal over the long term due to the nature of the securities in which it invests. The Fund is managed by Gabelli Funds, LLC, a subsidiary of GAMCO Investors, Inc. (NYSE:GBL), which is a publicly traded NYSE listed company.