WILTON — The Select Board voted Tuesday to pay the state $8,857.40, the amount four employees would have contributed to a law enforcement and firefighters health insurance program if they had been notified they were eligible when hired.

Town Manager Maria Greeley said a Sept. 19, 2019, law required all municipalities with full-time firefighters or law enforcement officers to notify new hires or existing employees eligible for the Retired County and Municipal Law Enforcement Officers and Municipal Firefighters Health Insurance Subsidy Program. The notification was to be in writing no later than 60 days following the date of hire. The municipality also had to submit the employee’s signed form indicating enrollment or refusal of this program.

The Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Division of Employee Health and Benefits sent a letter to the town about the legislation.

Open enrollment ran from Oct. 1, 2019, through Dec. 31, 2021, regardless of tenure. When it ended, employees were no longer eligible if they were beyond five years of hiring date.

Greeley said employees could enroll up to five years from their date of hire. If applying after their initial date of hire, they must pay back 2% of their gross earnings from date of hire to date of enrollment, Greeley wrote in an email.

Greeley said the town failed to notify five employees in all. The fifth employee is not eligible because the time for that person to enroll expired.