You MAY be able to receive some underemployment benefits. You have to go to the unemployment office's website, use the worksheet or tools there to calculate your weekly benefit amount (WBA) based on your earnings prior to the cut, then multiple that number by 1.5: if what you were paid after the pay cut/reduction in hours exceeds 1.5 times your WBA, you will not receive any benefits. If your earnings after the hourly reduction is less than 1.5 times your WBA, you will get some (not necessarily a lot) of benefits. My guess is that a reduction of 7 out of 40 hours, or around 17.5%, is not enough to entitle you to benefits (that is, it won't drop your pay enough to qualify), but it's worth it for you to do the calculations based on your actual prior and current pay. Here is a helpful link: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/uia/140_-_claiming_underemployment_beneifits_in_michigan_392272_7.pdf