<prompt> Human: I was employed by a company all of last year, and left January of this year. During last year I maxed out my employee contributions to my 401k. Today 9 March I got a call from my ex employer saying they were going to have to give me back 900 of my employee contributions because I was a high income earner and not enough lower compensated employees contributed to their 401k, so the employer is not in compliance with the terms of the 401k plan Voya. This seems a bit unfair, that Im not able to max out my pretax401k contributions due to other employees lack of wanting to save. Also, their timing sucks as Ive already given all my tax documents to my accountant to do last years returns so things may get messy. Im waiting for a return call from my ex employer to talk more but wanted to ask this community if this is normal andor if there are generally any alternatives?  <response>: Fair? Yes, its the law, your employer has no choice. 