Credit Card issuers will be allowed to request proof of income from anyone, at any age, who applies for a credit card. It used to be consumers would fill out a written or verbal application and whatever income was stated would be accepted no questions asked. Moving forward any issuer is supposed to request income verification, reviewing assets, and current obligations. One of the problems we have seen is various creditors had issued cards to consumers with no thought of other credit card obligations or limits. It will be interesting to see if this really happens and if there is any enforcement in place for creditors to actually use these procedures.