Also note that being an authorized user on someone else's (even a spouse's) credit card will no longer help or hurt your credit score once the FICO 08 scoring kicks in later this summer. This is being done to prevent "piggybacking". Piggybacking is where you get paid to make a stranger an authorized user without giving them a physical card, improving their score. So if your wife is currently an authorized user on some of your cards her score may actually drop further when this new model kicks in. In that case you would want to make her a joint account holder now rather than later.
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