"make a payment to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a transaction involving money, such as paying a bill or invoice. For example, "Please make a payment to XYZ Company for the amount of $100."
The retirees agreed to make a payment to compensate the firm's creditors.
That's when the state is scheduled to make a payment to local schools that is about $1 billion more than the cash on hand.
Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, dodged financial disaster last month by getting money from the state to make a payment to its bondholders.
"If they are found guilty, they would just have to make a payment to an N.G.O. that does humanitarian work," he continued, referring to a nongovernmental organization.
A dowry – a traditional, yet illegal, practice where the groom's family make a payment to the bride's relatives – is often the only way to make money.
You are now really restricted who you can make a payment to," Dinsmore told the Society of Editors conference in London on Monday.
One of its reported approaches is to enable ad-skipping while making a payment to ad-supported networks.
The judge's solution to all this was to force Argentina to pay the holdouts an equal amount each time it made a payment to the exchange bondholders.
The governor even attended the funeral of a militant who accidently burned himself to death after misfiring a rocket, and made a payment to the militant's family.
"With no assets to lose, an education in hand, why not discharge the loan without ever making a payment to the lender?" he said.
The agents produced a portable DVD player, and replayed for Balducci a video of himself making a payment to Judge Lackey.
