Thanks for your question. Quite frankly, there is no particular reason for claiming child benefit, we are both working and are able to provide for the children.
As foreigners, we do not know very well how the system work and we are anyway very reluctant to abuse the system.

Thanks for your advices. We send already the medical cards proving they are registered at a GP as well as letters from school with their adress.
My wife have a 5 years visa as the spouse of an European exercing the treaty rights in the UK

Good Morning, I am an European (French citizen) and I have been living in the U.K for more than 10 years. This is where I met my wife, from Cameroon, which I married. We make her children come to the UK about a year ago now and we send all the documentation required together with the form EEA2 when ...