The good news is that in October 2012, the ConsumerFinancialProtection Bureau proposed changes to the CARD Act to rectify this unintended consequence of the law.
The ConsumerFinancialProtection Bureau has said they will review the act and see what can be done to protect the rights of non-working spouses but many stay-at-home parents will continue to face a struggle of obtaining credit without the use of household income for the foreseeable future.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and ConsumerProtectionAct of 2010 tasked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to gauge the level of financial literacy that exists in America among individual investors.