State Ordered Wage Check Not Being Paid, Do I Have Recourse?

I worked for a restaurant for 14 months that was operating on a tip pool that wasn’t fairly paying its servers. After the DOL was brought in an investigation was conducted and a settlement was reached by the state I live in. Ten or so employees received packets from the state saying they’d be paid a sum every month for the next two years. Mine was for roughly $400. There were no stipulations in our packets about the payments.

This was in October- we received checks until January and then flash forward to February and none of us have received our checks this month. I called the state and was told that if the restaurant decides not to pay the money there isn’t anything the state can do until it reaches around $5,000, then they’ll try to collect and just divide that up among the payout recipients. I was originally owed $9,000 total and some people were owed over $10,000. This just doesn’t seem legal to me that I’m not going to receive my money after the state ordered them to pay it. Do we have any recourse? Any advice would be really helpful. Thank you I’m not super versed in employee law so sorry if this is a little confusing