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JOHN HANCOCK STRATEGIC SERIES

601 Congress Street

Boston, MA  02210

June 29, 2018

VIA EDGAR TRANSMISSION

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, DC 20549

RE: John Hancock Strategic Series (the “Trust”), on behalf of: John Hancock Income Fund (the “Fund”) File Nos. 033-05186; 811-04651

Ladies and Gentlemen:

On behalf of the Trust, transmitted for filing pursuant to Rule 497 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, are exhibits containing interactive data format risk/return summary information for the Fund.

The interactive data files included as exhibits to this filing mirror the risk/return summary information in the prospectus supplement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 11, 2018 on behalf of the Fund pursuant to Rule 497(e) (Accession No. 0001133228-18-003771), which is incorporated by reference into this Rule 497 Document.

If you have any questions or comments, please call me at (617) 663-4311.

Sincerely,

/s/ Thomas Dee

Thomas Dee

Assistant Secretary of the Trust

 

Exhibit Index

EX-101.INS	XBRL Instance Document
EX-101.SCH	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
EX-101.CAL	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
EX-101.LAB	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase Document
EX-101.PRE	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
EX-101.DEF	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document

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Jun. 11, 2018

Prospectus Supplement

JOHN HANCOCK BOND TRUST	JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUST
JOHN HANCOCK FUNDS II	JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUST II
JOHN HANCOCK FUNDS III	JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUST III
JOHN HANCOCK CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND	JOHN HANCOCK MUNICIPAL SECURITIES TRUST
JOHN HANCOCK CAPITAL SERIES	JOHN HANCOCK SOVEREIGN BOND FUND
JOHN HANCOCK CURRENT INTEREST	JOHN HANCOCK STRATEGIC SERIES

Supplement dated June 11, 2018 to the current Prospectus, as may be supplemented

Effective immediately, the following sentence in the introductory paragraph to the Shareholder Fees and expenses table in the summary prospectus for each series of the trusts listed above with Class A shares is revised as follows:

Intermediaries may have different policies and procedures regarding the availability of front-end sales charge waivers or CDSC waivers (See Appendix 1 to the prospectus – Intermediary sales charge waivers, which includes information about specific sales charge waivers applicable to the intermediaries identified therein).

The following section in Appendix 1 to each fund's prospectus is revised as follows:

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Effective July 1, 2018, shareholders purchasing fund shares through a Morgan Stanley Wealth Management transactional brokerage account which is not held directly at the fund will be eligible only for the following front-end sales charge waivers with respect to Class A shares, which may differ from and may be more limited than those disclosed elsewhere in this fund's Prospectus or SAI:

Front-end Sales Charge Waivers on Class A Shares available at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

• Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans
• Morgan Stanley employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley's account linking rules
• Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions when purchasing shares of the same fund
• Shares purchased through a Morgan Stanley self-directed brokerage account
• Class C (i.e., level-load) shares that are no longer subject to a contingent deferred sales charge and are converted to Class A shares of the same fund by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management pursuant to its share class conversion program
• Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (i) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (ii) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (iii) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales charge.

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JOHN HANCOCK BOND TRUST	JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUST
JOHN HANCOCK FUNDS II	JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUST II
JOHN HANCOCK FUNDS III	JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUST III
JOHN HANCOCK CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND	JOHN HANCOCK MUNICIPAL SECURITIES TRUST
JOHN HANCOCK CAPITAL SERIES	JOHN HANCOCK SOVEREIGN BOND FUND
JOHN HANCOCK CURRENT INTEREST	JOHN HANCOCK STRATEGIC SERIES

Supplement dated June 11, 2018 to the current Prospectus, as may be supplemented

Effective immediately, the following sentence in the introductory paragraph to the Shareholder Fees and expenses table in the summary prospectus for each series of the trusts listed above with Class A shares is revised as follows:

Intermediaries may have different policies and procedures regarding the availability of front-end sales charge waivers or CDSC waivers (See Appendix 1 to the prospectus – Intermediary sales charge waivers, which includes information about specific sales charge waivers applicable to the intermediaries identified therein).

The following section in Appendix 1 to each fund's prospectus is revised as follows:

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Effective July 1, 2018, shareholders purchasing fund shares through a Morgan Stanley Wealth Management transactional brokerage account which is not held directly at the fund will be eligible only for the following front-end sales charge waivers with respect to Class A shares, which may differ from and may be more limited than those disclosed elsewhere in this fund's Prospectus or SAI:

Front-end Sales Charge Waivers on Class A Shares available at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

• Employer-sponsored retirement plans (e.g., 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit sharing and money purchase pension plans and defined benefit plans). For purposes of this provision, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, Simple IRAs, SAR-SEPs or Keogh plans
• Morgan Stanley employee and employee-related accounts according to Morgan Stanley's account linking rules
• Shares purchased through reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions when purchasing shares of the same fund
• Shares purchased through a Morgan Stanley self-directed brokerage account
• Class C (i.e., level-load) shares that are no longer subject to a contingent deferred sales charge and are converted to Class A shares of the same fund by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management pursuant to its share class conversion program
• Shares purchased from the proceeds of redemptions within the same fund family, provided (i) the repurchase occurs within 90 days following the redemption, (ii) the redemption and purchase occur in the same account, and (iii) redeemed shares were subject to a front-end or deferred sales charge.