A BBC news website education report included the following quote from Anne Kiem of the IFS School of Finance:

She said: “We’re not talking about high finance – it’s things like how do you open a bank account, how do you pay a cheque”.

This may be a journalist’s mistake or it may be her mistake, but you don’t “pay a cheque”. You can “pay by cheque”, you can “pay in a cheque” or “pay a cheque in”, but you can’t “pay a cheque”. This, in a report about the lack of basic skills needed for employment, such as being able to speak/write in clear, accurate and understandable English, is pretty ironic.
Then again, the BBC news website is often littered with spelling mistakes (including ones which should be picked up by a basic spell-checker) and poor grammar, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised.