You can get student loan forgiveness by joining certain organizations. When you do service with these organizations, the government will accept this as a way to pay off your loan and give you student loan forgiveness. You can join the organization called Americorps to get student loan forgiveness. After a year of service at this organization, you can get 7400 dollars for stipends and 4725 dollars for education. You can use this money to pay off your loan. You can 616 dollars per month to cover your expenses. This is not very much money, but you can ask the federal government if they accept the service in the organization as well as the money as payment for your student loan. Americorps helps poor people and at-risk youths in the United States and it should help get student loan forgiveness. Another organization that you can help you get student loan forgiveness is the Peace Corps. The American Peace Corps helps people in developing countries. For first two years in this organization, you can get 30 percent off your Perkins Loan. You can get 20 percent per year off your Perkins Loan in the third and fourth year. You can defer your payments on the following loans: NDSL Loans, Perkins Loans, Federal Direct Loans, Federal Consolidated Loans and Stafford Loans. You will still have to pay the interest on these loans. To see how much student loan forgiveness you can get, you will have to contact the lender.