The word "waivers" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun used to mean a document or agreement that temporarily or permanently releases someone from an obligation or from legal responsibilities. For example, "The company made all employees sign waivers before using the company credit card."
"At the moment too much money is being channelled into fee waivers, which have zero impact on students while they're studying because they are discounting the debt that students will pay once they've started earning – and, actually, many students won't earn enough for that discount to be realised.
"Offering financial support to students while they are studying rather than fee waivers is often the best way to support students to be successful in their studies.
Individual agreements will be tailored to each university, requiring them to do outreach work in schools, offer financial waivers to students and take part in the national scholarships programme, which the government says will exempt up to 18,000 students from less well-off backgrounds from paying fees in their first year.
And it gets saved for a very long time – and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants.
But, in general, you should give states more freedom to experiment and make it easier for them to get waivers from programme rules.A recent study of Medicaid patients in Oregon found that insurance improved their financial security, but not their health.
But rather than pursue more relief from the USDA, the SNA has been aggressively seeking these waivers in Congress.
Clearly, American energy firms would love to get involved in Iran; but it seems clear that the Europeans, plus Russia and Malaysia, are getting waivers from the rigours of a sanctions law that will remain.Besides, the administration can hardly take domestic support for granted.
The harmless-sounding request to issue temporary waivers actually has enormous potential for abuse.
It says the rules are expensive and difficult to implement, and it wants temporary waivers to the rules for any school-meals programme that has been losing money for six months.
Using an agriculture appropriations bill (and the sort of policymaking that allowed pizza sauce to be counted as a vegetable), House Republicans propose allowing schools to apply for waivers if their school-food programmes are losing money.The SNA does have some reasonable-sounding points.
Specifics will be released in September, but the waivers will probably reflect reforms already rewarded in the Obama administration's "Race to the Top" programme for educational grants.
